[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 97 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6976]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 GENERAL MOTORS CLOSING MORE U.S. AUTO PLANTS AND MOVING JOBS OVERSEAS

  (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, General Motors has closed another auto 
plant in America, this time Tarrytown, NY. 2,100 American workers, 
gonesville.
  In addition, General Motors announced it will close another seven 
factories in America in the next several years.
  Now, if that is not enough to grease your slip clutch, General Motors 
announced it is building a billion-dollar factory in Thailand and a 
massive new plant in Mexico, and because the Mexican workers are so 
poor, they will help build the Mexican workers new homes. Unbelievable. 
Think about it. American workers losing their homes, General Motors 
building homes for Mexican workers, averaging 70 cents an hour.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. For years I thought the Three Stooges ran 
our economic policy. Today I suspect Dr. Jack Kevorkian. This is no 
program.
  Before the day is over, we will approve most-favored-nation trade 
status for a country that pays 17 cents an hour wages.
  I yield back any jobs left.

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