[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 30, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H1713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   REFUSAL OF THE HOUSE TO EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS

  (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, the House of Representatives again 
today refused to extend unemployment compensation benefits. Almost 1 
million Americans since December have lost have seen their unemployment 
benefits expire. That is 1 million people. That is 1 million families, 
people who are looking for work, people who cannot find work in this 
economy.
  In my state of Ohio, 300,000 people have lost their jobs. That is 
2,000 people every week. Two hundred and sixty people have lost their 
jobs every single day of the Bush administration.
  Their answer is more tax cuts for the wealthy, hoping it trickles 
down, and more trade agreements that hemorrhage jobs overseas.
  We should extend unemployment compensation benefits to those 1 
million workers. We should pass Crane-Rangel, a bipartisan initiative 
to give incentives to American manufacturers to hire Americans and to 
manufacture in this country.

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