[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 20 (Thursday, February 5, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       REFORM OUR TRADE POLICIES

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about the millions of 
high-quality jobs this Nation has outsourced over the last quarter 
century because of flawed free trade deals. These job-killing deals, 
like NAFTA, have been incredibly harmful to the American economy, 
racking up a massive, massive trade deficit of $9.5 trillion. And they 
have failed to live up to the promise of creating jobs. Instead, they 
have wiped out good jobs, high-paying jobs across our country.
  Take Motorola Solutions, for example, which shut down plants all over 
our country, from California to Florida. Motorola shut down those 
operations and moved production to China, to South America, to Eastern 
Europe.
  Take Walgreens, which has outsourced its information technology 
operations to Mexico, to India, leaving its Illinois employees jobless.
  Meanwhile, 6 years after the recession, Ohio and 14 other States have 
job markets that have not yet recovered from the number of jobs during 
the recession. Hundreds, thousands, millions of quality, good-paying 
manufacturing jobs have not returned. Citizens of these States, like 
Ohio, are fighting for honest employment.
  Since 1976, America has literally outsourced 47.5 million good jobs. 
We have a budget deficit because we have a $9.5 trillion trade deficit.
  We must support job seekers. More lopsided trade deals are not the 
answer. We simply have to reform our trade policies.

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