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Word: kucinivich (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1999-1999
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...evade these issues, some in Congress have chosen to attach a mystical significance to the steel industry, exalting it above all others. However, the historical prominence of an industry should have little bearing on current policy. Rep. Dennis Kucinivich (D-Ohio) compared the quota to administration efforts to open Europe's markets to bananas, but his arguments at times verged on the absurd: "Bananas did not build America. Steel did...We cannot build a tank with a banana, we cannot build a plane with a banana, we cannot build ships with a banana. We did not build cars with bananas...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Keeping Steel Fetters Off Trade | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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