POLICY STATEMENTS Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards AISI supports ongoing market-based efforts to promote energy-efficient vehicles in keeping with the steel industry's longstanding commitment to energy conservation. AISI strongly supports efforts by the Congress to freeze CAFE standards at current levels and opposes all efforts to increase CAFE standards, because such a policy would be counterproductive in terms of energy saving and is unnecessary interference with market forces. AISI agrees with legislative proposals to return responsibility for light truck CAFS to Congress. Infrastructure/Buy America AISI strongly supports increasing federal, state and local government expenditures on needed, productivity-enhancing infrastructure improvements. AISI also strongly supports continuing Buy American provisions at both the federal and state government levels, especially for steel-intensive government construction and infrastructure projects; we call upon all compliance offices to be vigilant in their enforcement of the law. Lastly, AISI urges the U.S. government to monitor carefully the benefits obtained by U.S. manufacturers to ensure that foreign signatories abide fully with the terms of the expanded international Government Procurement Code (GPC). Transportatation AISI supports a market approach to transportation issues and the concept of deregulation of transportation services. AISI endorses governmental safety programs for all modes and supports governmental funding necessary to keep the roads and tracks open and the waterways navigable, especially the Great Lakes in winter. The Metals Initiative AISI supports the continued existence of the Metals Initiative. National Labs AISI supports the continued existence and viability of the national laboratories and, in particular, those programs that permit public-private research partnerships. Accordingly, we support recent initiatives within the national laboratory system that encourage industrial partnership. Product Liability AISI supports Product Liability Reform legislation. Workers Compensation, Subrogation Rights AISI opposes abrogation of the employer's right of subrogation in workers compensation/product liability situations.     STATEMENTS & TESTIMONIES

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