[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 52 (Wednesday, April 21, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2227]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                THE PRESIDENT'S POLICIES ARE NOT WORKING

  (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. Madam Speaker, the numbers are out again. Ohio and 
most of the rest of the country continue to lose manufacturing jobs. 
One out of six manufacturing jobs in my State has disappeared since 
President Bush took office. The President's solution and the solution 
for our government continue to be the same: more tax cuts and trickle-
down economics tax cuts for the most privileged in our country with the 
hope that maybe some will trickle down and create jobs. That has not 
worked, or more trade agreements like NAFTA which ship jobs overseas, 
which does not work. The President refuses to extend unemployment 
compensation benefits to millions of Americans, literally over a 
million Americans who have had their unemployment benefits run out in 
the last 4 months; and the President refuses to extend those.
  Madam Speaker, we should extend unemployment benefits, we should pass 
employment agreements that create jobs, and instead of tax cuts for the 
wealthy, we should do focused tax cuts that reward those manufacturers 
that create jobs in this country.

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