[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 11 (Thursday, January 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H334]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   BARBIE DOLL HAS MOVED TO MEXICO ALONG WITH 700 UNITED STATES 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, while Congress plays politics with Newt 
Gingrich, last night's trade deficit showed a record of $10.5 billion. 
The 1994 trade deficit, Democrats, will hit a record $154 billion, 
which is equivalent to 3 million high-paying American jobs with 
benefits lost.
  It has gotten so bad, Barbie Doll has moved to Mexico. Mattel Inc., 
from New York, is laying off 700 workers. They will make Barbie Dolls 
now in Mexico.
  Mexico gets jobs, America gets pink slips, and Congress is debating 
Newt Gingrich and balanced budget amendments? Beam me up. There is no 
intelligent life left in the Congress of the United States.
  Where is the trade program of the Democrat Party? We are failing the 
American workers, and that is why we are in the minority, quibbling 
over the Speaker.

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