[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 86 (Monday, June 21, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H4617]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ECONOMY NEEDS NEW DIRECTION

  (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, President Bush again was in Ohio 
today in Cincinnati to again try to justify his economic program and 
his last 3 years of managing this economy. One out of six manufacturing 
jobs in Ohio has been lost since George Bush took office. We have lost 
190 jobs every single day of the Bush administration.
  He has two answers. His first answer is more tax cuts for the most 
privileged, for the largest corporations, for the wealthiest 5 percent 
of people in this country, hoping that those tax cuts will trickle down 
and create jobs. That has failed.
  His second answer is more trade agreements like the North American 
Free Trade Agreement. He wants to extend NAFTA to Central America into 
South America. Those trade agreements have hemorrhaged jobs; they have 
shipped jobs overseas. Instead, we need to extend unemployment 
benefits, reject the Bush plan, and go in a different direction. We 
need to extend unemployment benefits, pass legislation to reward and 
incentivize those companies that manufacture in this country, rather 
than big tax breaks to those companies that outsource jobs and ship 
jobs overseas.




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