[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 30, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H5096]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                AMERICAN WORKERS ARE GETTING PINK SLIPS

  (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, yesterday General Motors closed its plant 
in Flint, Michigan. Another 3,600 American manufacturing jobs gone.
  Meanwhile, General Motors plants all over the world remain open. 
Think about it. While foreign workers are building American cars, 
American workers are getting pink slips. Beam me up.
  I do not blame General Motors. I blame our trade policy. Our trade 
policies are killing jobs and killing investment.
  The question I have today: If our trade policy is so good, why does 
Japan not do it? Why does China not do it? My colleagues, think about 
that.
  I yield back what manufacturing jobs we have left in America.

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