Capitol Hill joins criticism of 'Made in China' U.S. Olympic uniforms

[Baitball Blogger]

WASHINGTON -- Team USA may be comprised of America's best athletes, but their uniforms have a more foreign origin. The patriotic red, white and blue outfits designed by Ralph Lauren to be worn during the opening ceremony were made in China.

Questions over whether overseas companies should be assembling the U.S. team's uniforms made their way to Congress on Thursday, with House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responding to the revelation first reported by ABC News.

“We take great pride in our Olympic athletes and try to watch them through as many of the trials as possible. I can’t wait to stay up all night to see as much as possible of them. We take such pride and they work so hard. They represent the very best and they’re so excellent, it’s all so beautiful,” Pelosi said.

“And they should be wearing uniforms made in America,” she concluded.

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[csziggy]

1. Were those uniforms made by one of Bain's outsourced companies?

That would be the cherry on the Bain/Rmoney scandal if the US Olympic team uniforms were manufactured by one of the companies whose production was outsourced to China.

Who makes Ralph Lauren clothing? How could we track this?

[Skidmore]

2. Instead of piling on the uniform kerfluffle to seem the most patriotic, I would like to see

a sincere amount of work done to establish some reasonable trade and labor policies that benefit this nation. Instead of asking pols about the horse that's already out of the gate, reporters need to ask them about the one not yet out of the barn. And we need to quit piling on too unless we are going to hold Congress acccountable.