[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4396]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               PRESIDENT VISITS OHIO IN MIDST OF JOB LOSS

  (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 came to Cleveland near 
my district last week to try to defend his economic policies. This is a 
President who will be the first President since Herbert Hoover who has 
seen a net loss of jobs during his term. Ohio has lost 3 million jobs 
since George Bush raised his right hand on January 20, 2001. He has 
lost 2,000 jobs a week, 260 jobs every single day that he has been 
President. His response always to bad economic news is more tax cuts 
for the most privileged, trickle-down economics, hoping something will 
trickle down to the middle class and more trade agreements like NAFTA 
that ship jobs overseas.
  Tax cuts for the wealthy are not working. Overseas trade agreements 
like China and PNTR and CAFTA and NAFTA and all the things that he is 
trying to do, those are not working, either. We need an economic policy 
that puts working families first. That means job creation. That means 
those 300,000 Ohioans who have lost jobs can be put back to work.

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