[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 37 (Tuesday, March 23, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H1344-H1345]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      PASS CRANE-RANGEL FOR INCREASED INCENTIVES FOR MANUFACTURING

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, President Bush was in my home State 
of Ohio in Cleveland near my district a week or so ago trying to 
justify his economic policy. Ohio has lost 300,000 jobs since President 
Bush took office. That is 2,000 jobs a week, 260 jobs every day. One 
out of six manufacturing jobs has simply disappeared in Ohio.
  His response is more tax cuts for the most wealthy in society, with 
trickle-down economics, hoping that it might create some jobs and trade 
agreements that ship more jobs overseas. It is not working.
  Mr. Speaker, this House of Representatives should pass the Crane-
Rangel bill, which will give incentives to American manufacturing to 
grow their manufacturing jobs here. This Congress should pass that 
instead of what President Bush has tried: old trickle-down economics, 
which is not working.

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