[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17755-17756]
[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.)

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  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, President Bush has spent a lot of 
time in my State of Ohio in the last few weeks. He was in Brecksville 
in my district just this weekend. He comes to Ohio to try to argue for 
an economic policy that has seen one out of six manufacturing jobs in 
our State disappear. His answer to every bad piece of economic news is 
more tax cuts for the wealthy, a person making $1 million gets a 
$123,000 tax cut, and more trade agreements like NAFTA that continue to 
ship jobs overseas. Clearly his economic policies are not working in a 
State that has 220,000 fewer jobs than it did when George Bush took 
office.
  Instead, as Senator Kerry suggests, we should extend unemployment 
benefits. We should reward those companies that manufacture 
domestically. We should penalize those companies that go offshore like 
Halliburton and continue to ship jobs overseas, that continue to take 
tax advantage of the American people and continue to lose jobs in our 
Nation.

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