[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 75 (Tuesday, June 13, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H3891-H3892]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      JOB-KILLING TRADE AGREEMENTS

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the People's Republic of China, 
Communist China, announced today that they have a $13 billion trade 
surplus for the month of May only. China last year with the U.S. had a 
$203 billion trade surplus, which, according to the U.S.-China Economic 
Security and Review Commission, a government agency, said that accounts 
in my State alone for a loss potentially of 42,000 manufacturing jobs.

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  Too many of our Senators, too many of our House Members voted for 
these trade agreements that outsourced jobs, these job-killing trade 
agreements that devastate our communities. When places like Mansfield 
and Chillicothe and Portsmouth and Zanesville and Lima lose these kinds 
of industrial manufacturing jobs, they hurt our schools, they mean 
fewer police on the street, they mean weaker fire protection, they mean 
hardship for our families.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time that Members of Congress stood up and quit 
passing these job-killing trade agreements.

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