Trade, Competitiveness, and Clean Energy Technologies

Floor Speech

Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, trade is critically important to our economic well-being. Trade provides a market for American goods, and sustains millions of jobs in vital American industries. In fact, exports support one of every five manufacturing jobs.

Trade can also make the U.S. a leader in clean energy technologies. In 2009, China edged the U.S. out of the top spot in spending on clean energy. But projects like the all-electric commercial truck built by Navistar in my district, and supported through a Federal stimulus investment, can restore the U.S. as the leader in this field while creating jobs here at home.

Now we need to pursue a better competition policy and help simplify the patchwork of global regulatory standards that cripple businesses trying to export goods internationally. We can make trade policy work for American businesses and for a cleaner environment.

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