[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 137 (Wednesday, October 1, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H9038]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TAX CUTS AND OUR ECONOMIC SITUATION

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the economy in my part of the country 
continues to drift; yet Congress and the President continue to fiddle. 
Three and a half million jobs lost since President Bush took office. 
Two and a half million manufacturing jobs have vanished, one out of ten 
manufacturing jobs in this country. It simply disappeared; most moved 
overseas in the last 2\1/2\ years. Plant closing after plant closing. 
Now, the President asks us for $87 billion with no accountability, $87 
billion to Iraq.

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  Yet the President at home is cutting education, is cutting spending 
on health care, will not provide a prescription drug benefit, and even 
is cutting veterans benefits. Why? For the simple reason that he wants 
this war on the cheap and the simple reason that he wants to continue 
to give tax cuts to the most privileged people in this society.
  Forty-two percent of the tax cuts have gone to the richest 1 percent 
of people in this country. That means a millionaire gets a $93,000 tax 
cut. Half of my constituents got nothing.

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