[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 27 (Friday, March 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 11, 1994]
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            DETROIT WELCOMES PRESIDENT CLINTON'S JOBS SUMMIT

  (Miss COLLINS of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Miss COLLINS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, some members of the media are 
proclaiming that next week's jobs summit in Detroit for the leaders of 
the world's industrial nations is useless or irrelevant. These 
pronouncements are beyond belief.
  I applaud President Clinton for selecting Detroit for the summit, a 
city whose manufacturing jobs have plummeted from 400,000 to 100,000, a 
city that has been battered by governmental neglect, unfair imports, 
and trickle down economics that never trickled down.
  How can they say that a meeting called to discuss job creation is 
irrelevant? Tell that to the father who worked in the auto factory for 
20 years and saw his job disappear. Tell that to the African-American 
who lined up with thousands of others for Post Office jobs that do not 
even exist yet.
  It is easy for a safely ensconced, inside-the-Beltway journalist or a 
comfortable Ivy League academic who never saw a day of unemployment in 
his life to say that the President's jobs summit is useless.
  Our doors are open in Detroit to the President and to world leaders 
as they join together to bring jobs to regions like mine, where 
unemployment last year averaged 13 percent and where among minorities 
today it is stuck at almost 20 percent.
  We will show you firsthand how the lack of a job can tear apart a 
family and rip through communities like a tornado when you come to 
Detroit next week.

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