[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 6, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1720]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        A MESSAGE FROM SARA LEE

  (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, Sara Lee is closing their Virginia 
apparel factory; 42 workers lose their jobs. Sara Lee is also closing a 
T-shirt factory in North Carolina; another 370 workers lose their jobs.
  But Sara Lee says there is a lot of good news here. They are going to 
keep open their distribution center in Martinsville, VA. Distributing 
center. They will not make the products here. They will distribute them 
so America can buy them but Americans cannot work in the factory.
  My colleagues, America does not build a TV, a VCR, a typewriter, or a 
telephone, but they are distributing them all over our Nation. With 
NAFTA and GATT, this is not even trade anymore. This is a takeover. 
America is becoming a distribution center for foreign made imports.
  Think about it, Congress. There is a serious message in there.

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