Thread: Hayes wants Homeland Security to buy domestic textiles

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Posted on Wed, Mar. 15, 2006
Hayes wants Homeland Security to buy domestic textiles
PAUL NOWELL
Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should join the military in buying more textiles from American companies, Rep. Robin Hayes said Wednesday.

Hayes introduced legislation, co-sponsored by five other North Carolina Republicans and 16 other House members, expanding requirements that now direct military purchasers to "Buy American" textiles whenever possible.

"Homeland Security spends a lot of money on uniforms and shoes and all kinds of stuff," Hayes said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C.

In December, the Concord Republican who represents a textile-heavy district lobbied for language in a defense bill to make it easier to find out when Pentagon buyers use foreign suppliers for U.S. military uniforms. When the Defense Department allows an exception to domestic-source requirements, the Secretary of Defense would be required to post a notification on a General Services Administration Web site within seven days.

Hayes and his co-sponsors would expand the requirements for Defense Department purchases to include Homeland Security, Hayes spokeswoman Carolyn Hern said.

Hayes' district in central North Carolina has been devastated by the loss of textile jobs because of international free-trade agreements, yet the once-staunch opponent of such deals flipped sides last year to help President Bush win narrow passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA. Hayes said he did it in exchange for a promise that the Bush administration would more toughly enforce trade rules against China.

A Republican from Concord who represents a district that has lost thousands of textile jobs, Hayes said it was not simply a protectionist measure.

Hayes said maintaining a strong manufacturing base needs to be a top priority for this country.

"We must expand this requirement to not only protect American jobs, but provide the assurance that DHS officials will not be wearing goods manufactured by a potential adversary, like black berets from China," he said in a statement.

The new bill's co-sponsors include North Carolina Republicans Howard Coble, Virginia Foxx, Walter Jones, Sue Myrick and Patrick McHenry. It also has the backing of the National Council of Textile Organizations, American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition and the American Apparel and Footwear Association.

"I believe the American taxpayer wants to know that their taxes are being used to preserve American jobs, and this legislation is yet another step in that direction," said Jim Chesnutt, chairman of NCTO and chief executive of Washington, N.C.-based National Spinning Co.

LOL, you vote for CAFTA and then cry "Buy American!" what a piece of work!

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

LOL, you vote for CAFTA and then cry "Buy American!" what a piece of work!

W

Yep, typical politican talking out of both sides of his mouth.

I posted this article on N&O Forum in Raleigh...DEEP IN THE HEART OF GLOBALIST TERRITORY!!

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Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006

Congressman: National security needs `Made in USA'

By TIM FUNK
Charlotte Observer

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of reports that U.S. Border Patrol uniforms are made in Mexico, Rep. Robin Hayes filed a bill Tuesday night that would require the Department of Homeland Security to buy American when it comes to materials related to national security.

Such requirements -- outlined in the so-called Berry Amendment -- currently cover only the Pentagon and the Coast Guard.

Besides uniforms, the bill would apply to items such as tents, cots and specialty metals used for military medals.

"We must expand this requirement not only to protect American jobs," Hayes, a Concord Republican, said at a Wednesday news conference, "but to provide the assurances that (Homeland Security) officials will be not be wearing goods manufactured by a potential adversary."

Last December, Hayes got Congress to approve tougher language on the Berry Amendment after the Army decided to buy 3 million black berets from China and other countries.

Hayes' bill extending the rules to Homeland Security -- home to Federal Emergency Management Agency, Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Safety Administration, which handles airport security -- is popular with textile and apparel plants in his district. In this election year, he's been busy in recent months mending fences with some of them that had opposed his vote last year for CAFTA -- the Central America Free Trade Agreement.

At Wednesday's news conference, Hayes surrounded himself with representatives of the textile industry.

Jean Lineberger of Brawer Technical Yarns of Gaston County stressed the bill's boost to economic security: "Right after Katrina, there were emergency tents air-freighted in from the Netherlands (by FEMA) to the Gulf Coast ... With U.S. tax dollars, we need to be buying U.S. goods."

Among co-sponsors: Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., John Spratt, D-S.C., Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., Howard Coble, R-N.C., Walter Jones, R-N.C., Bob Inglis, R-S.C., and Joe Wilson, R-S.C.

FLIP FLOPIN ROBIN HAYES:


JACKASS OF THE YEAR AWARD.

JP, got a picture of the other end of the donkey? That'd be the real Hayes.

Originally Posted by had_enuf

JP, got a picture of the other end of the donkey? That'd be the real Hayes.

True but ALIPAC is a clean site.

Hayes knows he screwed up when he voted yes to CAFTA, now he's trying to fix it. I sent an email and called his office right after he changed his mind and voted yes and LOUDLY EXPRESSED my disgust with what he had done. I also mentioned that maybe he needed to be hunting him a job at McDonald's because after what he did to the working people of NC, he was gonna need that job flipping burgers

Has Hayes changed? We got a military contract in North Carolina but immigrants work in the factories.