chairman, we will have to vote on that but let's have no doubt you wrote that parma and thus have no doubt about the fact, it would kill the bill so you can vote for this if you want to but the fact is that it kills the ability to import drugs and that, let's not have a charade. and so i would be happy to do what ever the committee wishes are two have a vote on that but have no doubt it would have the effect of killing legislation and amendments before us. >> mr. chairman i have supported this proposal and the past and i think the case has been made on the importation. i supported this in the past, we had a vote to something similar to this and i supported it and i would again today. i think this is an important provision and moving that direction but obviously members i have disagreed at this point i don't think the when bush necessarily kills the bill, it does raise the issues about effectiveness but nonetheless i want to be on record as being supportive of this effort and another has been an effort in the past you talk about this in different vehicles but this is certainly major c

closing of the chrysler twinsburg plant, the gm mansfield metal center plant and gm's power train unit in parma. these dealers and their employees, they're not merely statistics. they have families. they have mortgages. and dare i have say they have car payments. and in the time that i've been in congress we've been fighting. we've been fighting hard to try to keep those jobs in america. because if people do not have good jobs in the united states, they're not going to have any money to buy things. and they can't be consumers. and over the last few months along with my colleagues, many of them in this room we've been working on the consumer assistance to recycle and save act known as the cars act which passed earlier this week. and through the cars act manufacturers -- it's going to help manufacturers and it's going to help auto related jobs throughout the country while improving the environment and helping consumers. but again, it's called the cars act but it's really not about cars. it's about people. it's about the people who produce those cars. and our job here -- the actions that we've bee

one in parma, ohio, too. the stamping plant in mansfield was consistently ranked higher according to the competitive operating agreement that gm does its own assessment, has the lowest manufacturing costs per ton. gm chose to close that plant. how does the administration, i mean, they made that decision, i know it wasn't a political decision. the local congressman said president obama should go and explain to the workers why he closed the plant. that was a political statement, to be sure. how does the administration oversee the -- there were some closing arguments, i assume, although they did not make them very well, there were many more arguments to keep it open to a it is devastating and we all know what these plant closings due to a community. talk about your oversight and the demands to -- the demand for transparency in these companies that federal taxpayers have major investor tments in. >> certainly, these are devastating and general motors is closing many plant. we have made an absolute determination w