[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14026]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      NORTH AMERICAN FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT COSTING JOBS IN AMERICA

  (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, since NAFTA, America has lost 250,000 
jobs in 1995 alone. Lockheed laid off 15,000; Chemical Bank, 12,000; 
Bell South, 11,000; AT&T, 8,500; Boeing, 12,000; CNA, 6,000; Kmart, 
6,000; General Motors, 5,000; Kodak, 4,000. Even Fruit of the Loom will 
make the Expandos, folks, in Mexico, 3,200 jobs lost. Meanwhile, 
Congress keeps debating and arguing over this balanced budget.
  Tell me, Mr. Speaker, whether it is a 5-year deal, a 7-year deal, a 
10-year deal, whatever the deal is, how can America balance the budget 
without jobs? Mexican workers do not pay taxes. Mexican workers do not 
pay taxes. What is next, a 20-year deal?
  Beam me up. I yield back the balance of these job losses.

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