[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8284-8285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       PRESIDENT EXPLAINING AWAY TERRIBLE ECONOMIC RECORD IN OHIO

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Madam Speaker, President Bush came to Ohio today 
on about his 20th trip to campaign for reelection in our State, and the 
reason he comes back so often in Ohio is to try to explain away his 
terrible economic record.
  Since George Bush became President, Ohio has lost one-sixth of its 
manufacturing jobs; 177,000 manufacturing jobs alone have left the 
State. Every single month of the Bush administration, we have lost 
manufacturing jobs.
  The President's answer? More tax cuts for the most privileged people. 
If you make $1 million, you get a $123,000 tax cut, hoping that will 
trickle down and create jobs. It is not working. His other solution is 
more NAFTA-like trade agreements that hemorrhage jobs, that send jobs 
overseas.
  We need to change the direction of this economy, to change the 
direction of this country. Workers should get their unemployment 
compensation extended. We should be giving breaks to those companies 
that manufacture in the United States, not ship jobs overseas.

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