[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 137 (Tuesday, October 25, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H9072]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HELPING THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, recent events in the State of Ohio makes 
it urgent that this Congress address issues that relate to the 
automotive industry. Delphi's recent bankruptcy filing may result in 
the closing of several Ohio plants that provide thousands of jobs. 
General Motors' sharp cutbacks in health care benefits for UAW members 
and retirees as well as Ford's announcement of sharp job cutbacks 
beginning in January of 2006 possibly affecting at least one major auto 
production facility make it imperative that we come together to do 
everything we can to help protect America's automotive industry.
  And we are doing that in Ohio by organizing not only our elected 
officials and our labor officials but the business community in coming 
together to address the challenge to one of our State's largest 
employment sectors that can only be met by a coordinated effort of our 
entire delegation.
  The automotive industry is in a state of crisis. We are cooperating 
to bring together all of the resources possible to make sure that we 
protect the jobs of autoworkers as well as all the allied unions who 
work with them and to make sure that one of America's great industries 
has the strength to endure.

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