Robert C. Byrd: “I have been around here for 30 years on this Hill and we have talked about free trade and all that, and I want to see us…”

“I have been around here for 30 years on this Hill and we have talked about free trade and all that, and I want to see us increase our exports to other countries and we can do that. But we are going to have to do something to protect our basic industries because, under the Constitution, Congress has the responsibility to promote the common defense of this country, and we cannot do it if we do not have the vital steel industry and ferroalloy industry and other basic industries to keep our country free.”