[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13334]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    THE PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC POLICY

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, President Bush again was in Ohio this 
past week to try to justify his economic program to try to sell it to 
the residents of my State.
  Since President Bush took office, one out of six manufacturing jobs 
has disappeared from my State. President Bush will be the first 
President since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs during his 
time in office. Ohio has lost 190 jobs every single day of the Bush 
administration.
  His answer is always the same: more tax breaks for large corporations 
and the wealthiest people in the country which might, he thinks, 
trickle down to create jobs, and more trade agreements like NAFTA which 
all serve only to ship jobs overseas.
  Mr. Speaker, instead of this disastrous Bush economic policy, we need 
to change directions, extend unemployment benefits, and give tax 
incentives to those corporations that do business in the United States 
rather than using U.S. taxpayer subsidies to reward those companies 
that go overseas and ship jobs overseas and outsource our middle-class 
jobs.

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