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WASHINGTON – U.S. Congresswoman Candice Miller (MI-10) today delivered the following speech on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:

“During the past several years the domestic auto industry has undergone an incredibly painful economic transition. Quite frankly, this industry was on its knees and many people didn’t think that either General Motors or Chrysler would survive. And these naysayers said that it would be best if they were just left to, in the case of General Motors, go into a chaotic bankruptcy, and in the case of Chrysler, certainly a complete liquidation.

“For my great state of Michigan, my beautiful state of Michigan which has suffered the worst economic depression certainly in my lifetime, if that would have happened, as bad as its been for us, what would have happened if those companies went bankrupt or liquidated would have been unimaginable. The loss of tens of thousands of more jobs, either directly or indirectly through the supply chain and all the businesses that rely on the spin off from the auto industry.

“Tomorrow, Chrysler Company, at the Sterling Heights Assembly plant, also known as SHAP, which is in my district, will be announcing that they will be paying back the federal government loans, in their entirety, four years early, ahead of schedule. This is the same plant that just recently put on a third shift, actually saving in that plant well over 2,000 jobs. I am very proud of everyone who has supported the domestic auto industry. And certainly it is proof that the best automobiles in the entire world are indeed Imported from Detroit.”

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