John Barrasso actually said...

When you talk about production being hemmed in, of course that means jobs lost in the United States in the oil industry.

Since 2009, China has given its synthetic soda ash producers a nine percent rebate on China's value added tax.

The purpose of our bill is to help America's natural soda ash producers compete in the global market.

Soda ash exports help reduce America's trade deficit and grow our nation's economy.