[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15250-15251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          BUSH 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 came to my home 
State of Ohio last week to try to explain the Bush economic policy, 
visiting a State with high unemployment, a State that has lost 200,000 
jobs since President Bush took office, a State that has lost one-sixth 
of its manufacturing jobs and a State that has lost about 190 jobs 
every single day of the Bush administration.
  His answer to every economic problem is more tax cuts for the 
wealthiest people. Somebody making a million dollars gets a tax cut of 
$125,000, hoping it will trickle down to create jobs and more trade 
agreements like NAFTA, which instead have simply shifted jobs overseas.
  We need to change direction on this economy. It is not working in 
Ohio. It is not working in the industrial Midwest. We need a better 
manufacturing policy that pays attention to American

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manufacturing but does not shift jobs overseas.

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