[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 71 (Wednesday, May 19, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H3377-H3378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  BUSH RHETORIC DOES NOT MATCH RECORD

  (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, it has happened again. The Timken 
Company of Canton, Ohio, owned by one of

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the President's biggest fund-raisers, a place where the President a 
year ago said his tax cut policies were working, look at the prosperity 
of this company, the Timken Corporation closed its doors in Canton, 
Ohio, laying off 1,300 people.
  The Bush economic record in Ohio: One out of six manufacturing jobs 
has disappeared, 177,000 manufacturing jobs in the State are gone, 200 
jobs a day have been lost since President Bush took office.
  The Timken Company sent out a press release 3 weeks ago, bragging 
about its quarterly sales of $1.1 billion, saying it set some kind of 
record.
  The Bush administration economic record over the last 4 years has 
been to ship jobs overseas, give tax cuts to large corporations; those 
large corporations have huge profits, then they lay off American 
workers. It is the same old story.
  This economic policy is not working for my State of Ohio. It is not 
working for manufacturing. It is not working for working Americans. It 
is not working for our communities.

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