[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 93 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5698]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     JAPAN SHOULD OPEN ITS MARKETS

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, last week a full-page advertisement appeared 
in the Washington Post that stated: ``Leading Newspapers Agree: U.S. 
Trade Sanctions On Japan Are Not The Answer.'' The Washington Post 
raked in over $25,000 on this one ad. The Wall Street Journal, another 
opponent of the sanctions, printed a similar ad, but the charges there 
were over $123,000 for a page. Here on Capitol Hill, Roll Call, a 
newspaper that goes to every congressional office, printed an ad 
opposing the sanctions that cost $6,200.
  There is big money to be made by newspapers in opposing United States 
trade sanctions on Japan and in opposing the American people in the 
process, but is it not revealing who has their hands in the honey pot.
  I would like to say who is going to stand up for the 700,000 United 
States workers employed in the auto industry, the 4 million workers who 
work in the textile, semiconductor, paint, and plaster industry and 
millions of Americans who would have jobs in the industry if Japan 
would open its markets?

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