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Alan B. Mollohan: “We are trying to protect the steel industry from unfair foreign competition, on the one hand; and we are definitely…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2001
We are trying to protect the steel industry from unfair foreign competition, on the one hand; and we are definitely trying to protect it from an agency that is funded with the people's money going out and empowering China, which has a tremendous excess capacity at this point, from developing greater excess capacity. Yes, we are trying to protect them from that kind of conduct and a major American agency that we fund being instrumental in making that possible.
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Alan B. Mollohan
West Virginia

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Discussing the need to protect the steel industry from foreign competition and government actions.

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