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Jim Sensenbrenner: “Mr. Chairman, yes, the enemy is China but we have no moral high ground to complain about China flooding the American…”

On the recordNovember 6, 2003
Mr. Chairman, yes, the enemy is China but we have no moral high ground to complain about China flooding the American market with goods made from slave labor in China if we do not reform Prison Industries because they are doing the same thing here.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need to reform Prison Industries in relation to labor practices.

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