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Excerpt from Proposed Amendments to the Metric System Conversion Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Technology of the Committee on Science, U. S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, May 16, 1996
Mrs. Morella. The Technology Subcommittee will now com mence.
We have a hearing today on proposed amendments to the Metric Conversion Act.
The United States remains the only major industrialized country which does not predominantly use metric as a standard measure ment system. While the rest of the world is using meters, grams, and degrees Celsius, the United States is solely using inches, pounds and degrees Fahrenheit.
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