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Robert C. Byrd: “We must remain an industrialized Nation if we are going to have a foreign policy that works and if we are going to be…”

On the recordDecember 15, 1982
We must remain an industrialized Nation if we are going to have a foreign policy that works and if we are going to be prepared militarily to keep our country secure.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Dec 15, 1982

Editor's note · Context

Discussing job losses in the domestic ferroalloy industry from unfair foreign trade.

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