The Nation - News from June 9, 1985

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) charged that the Commerce Department, in advising U.S. manufacturers to become competitive, has recommended that some of them move their plants overseas. In a letter to President Reagan, Bentsen said the recommendation “suggests that it is government policy to actively encourage such transfers. . . . The trend is contrary to the national interest because re-establishing similar activities in the United States in the future would be prohibitively expensive.”