[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15029]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WE NEED A DIFFERENT ECONOMIC POLICY

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney was in 
Cleveland this week trying to explain the President's economic policy 
to a State which has lost one-sixth of its manufacturing jobs since 
President Bush and Vice President Cheney took office, a State that has 
lost almost 200,000 jobs overall, a State that has lost 195 jobs every 
single day of the Bush administration.
  His answer to Ohio's economic problems is more tax cuts for the 
wealthiest people in the State hoping those tax cuts will trickle-down 
and create jobs. That clearly has not worked. And his other answer is 
more trade agreements like NAFTA and other trade agreements which have 
hemorrhaged jobs and shipped jobs overseas.
  Clearly we need a new direction. The Bush economic policies are not 
working in the industrial Midwest. They are not working in small-town 
Ohio; they are not working in the big cities. We need a different 
economic policy. The Bush program simply is not working.

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