[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 125 (Tuesday, July 22, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3540]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  COST OF AMERICA LAST TRADE POLICIES

  (Mr. DAVIDSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Madam Speaker, for decades, Washington, D.C., has 
allowed international trade organizations to put our competitors ahead 
of the American people. Groups like the World Trade Organization allow 
China to exploit trade loopholes while claiming to be a developing 
nation, stealing our intellectual property, and manipulating their own 
currency.
  Under these America last trade policies, Ohio has lost a third of its 
manufacturing jobs. Between 2000 and 2010, Hamilton County in the 
Eighth District lost 66,000 good-paying, high-skilled jobs. My district 
heard the giant sucking sound of American industry fleeing overseas.
  These jobs drove innovation and productivity, and they built our 
middle class. America last trade policies not only exported jobs and 
outsourced our defense industrial base, but they exported much of our 
future. Our trade policy ought to put American industry and American 
citizens first.

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