[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 35 (Thursday, March 18, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H1234]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          JOBS MOVING OVERSEAS

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, last month Siemans announced that it was 
moving most of its 15,000 software jobs to China, India, and Eastern 
Europe. We have now lost 229,000 computer jobs since 2001. Pfizer and 
Levis now produce none of their products in this country, even though 
this is where they make most of their money.
  Yesterday, The Washington Post carried a story about a chemical plant 
in West Virginia closing this month, just after its 75th anniversary. 
The story said we have lost 100,000 chemical jobs in the last 5 years 
because of cheap foreign competition and soaring natural gas prices.
  The Clinton administration locked up 213 trillion cubic feet of 
natural gas due to pressure from environmental extremists. Conservative 
columnist Paul Craig Roberts, a Reagan Treasury Department official, 
wrote recently, ``The combination of war, job and income loss, 
unprecedented trade deficits, and the creation of Social Security 
entitlements for foreign nationals will break the U.S. long before 
another generation passes.
  ``Before the U.S. can reconstruct the world,'' he wrote, ``it must 
cease deconstructing itself.''

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