[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 22, 1994]
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                   DISTURBING EFFECTS FELT FROM NAFTA

  (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, NAFTA is 10 weeks old, and already 
workers from 50 plants have filed for job training and displacement 
services. That is 50 plants, 10 weeks, 5 plants a week--9 in 
Pennsylvania, 8 in Washington, 7 in New Jersey, 5 in New York, 4 in 
Massachusetts.
  What do we say to those families of workers without jobs? Sorry? Good 
luck? Hope you make it?
  What are the jobs they are being retrained for, I ask the Members of 
Congress. Burger flippers? Corn cob pipe assemblers?
  Mr. Speaker, NAFTA was a treaty, and in fact I say it is 
unconstitutional. With layoffs like this, NAFTA means free trade for 
Mexico all right and stone-cold unemployment and separation from work 
for American workers.
  Mr. Speaker, the Congress had better start looking for jobs in our 
own country.

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