[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18834]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    PRESIDENT BUSH VISITS OHIO AGAIN

  (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, President Bush was again in Ohio in 
the last few days, a key battleground State, again trying to justify a 
failed economic policy, a policy where we have lost one out of six 
manufacturing jobs in our State, a policy where we have lost 150 jobs 
every single day of the Bush administration, yet the President's answer 
continues to be the same old tired bromides, tax cuts for the 
wealthiest Americans. Taxpayers who make $1 million a year, they get a 
$123,000 tax cut, hoping it trickles down to create new jobs. That has 
not worked.
  The other President Bush answer to bad economic times is more trade 
agreements that ship jobs overseas. In fact, this body is coming back 
in a lame duck session in November, probably to try to pass a Central 
American Free Trade Agreement to expand the failed policies of the 
North American Free Trade Agreement.
  Mr. Speaker, we need a new economic direction in my State of Ohio 
where we have lost more than 200,000 jobs. We need a new economic 
direction in this country.

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