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MLB RESOLUTION
(Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask my colleagues to support legislation that I, along with Representative Jim Hagedorn, are introducing to ask the House of Representatives to denounce Major League Baseball's actions in closing a plant in Caledonia, Minnesota, and moving manufacturing jobs to communist China.
For more than two decades, Miken Sports has been located in the Caledonia community. As an integral small business, Miken employs nearly 150 hardworking Americans. This decision to close the plant and move jobs to China directly defies Major League Baseball's position as America's pastime.
There is nothing American about outsourcing jobs to China, removing income from American workers, and destroying a community's economy. We know that very well in Atlanta, Georgia.
Major League Baseball should be an unquestionable supporter of American jobs. The League's decision to close the plant and move those jobs to China is incredibly disheartening. America's pastime should be supported by American-made products and jobs.
Mr. Speaker, I urge Major League Baseball to live up to its responsibility to the American people by reversing this decision to keep these jobs at home and to purchase American-made products, and I ask my colleagues for their support.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 170
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