[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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                         OUR COUNTRY NEEDS JOBS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton hit a home run last 
night. That is exactly the way it is, and the President must be given 
credit for placing health care, welfare, and crime reform on the 
agenda.
  However, my colleagues, Congress can provide health care for all, but 
what really is needed is a job. Congress can throw the book at all 
these young offenders, but what really is needed is a job. Congress can 
reform welfare all they want. What is really needed is a job. And with 
a tax law right now that penalizes investment in achievement and a 
trade law policy in this country that ships jobs overseas and lays 
people off, that is not going to happen.
  Congress, it is about jobs, and Congress has made jobs a real four-
letter word. I give the President credit, but this cyclical economic 
turnaround can turn the other way. We have systemic problems.
  Mr. Speaker, our country needs jobs.

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