[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 8, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H52]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           TRUMP'S TRADE DEALS WILL NOT BRING BACK LOST JOBS

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, President Trump is scheduled to 
arrive in Toledo, Ohio, for his first campaign rally of 2020.
  Does he know that Ohio has lost 286,332 manufacturing jobs since the 
first NAFTA went into effect and even more jobs during his Presidency? 
President Trump will not bring back those jobs.
  And since his NAFTA 2 passed, called the USMCA, the U.S. automotive 
companies have announced plans to expand production in Mexico. GM is 
closing numerous U.S. plants, including in Ohio, while making popular 
models in Mexico. Ford is even making its new electric Mustang in 
Mexico, the first Mustang not to be made in the United States of 
America.
  American manufacturing workers who find reemployment are typically 
taking pay cuts. What is more, the President has nothing to say or do 
about providing for pensions for over 60,000 Ohioans who are going to 
have them cut substantially because he does not support the Butch Lewis 
Act, which passed this Congress in this House and is waiting for 
passage over in the other body.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to end my comments by saying that maybe the 
President, when he lands, should announce that Toledo's F-16 Air Guard 
fighter wing should get a complement of F-35s, which that unit has duly 
earned.

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