[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9028]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ECONOMIC REMEDIES

  (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, last week President Bush took one of 
his bus trips through the State of Ohio trying to argue for his 
economic policy. Ohio is a State that has lost 170,000 manufacturing 
jobs. Virtually every month during the Bush administration, we have 
lost manufacturing jobs. One out of six manufacturing jobs in the State 
of Ohio has disappeared since President Bush took office. His answer 
always is more tax cuts for the wealthiest people in our society with 
the hope some will maybe trickle down and create jobs. That has not 
worked. His other answer is more trade agreements like NAFTA that shift 
jobs overseas.
  Instead, Congress should extend unemployment benefits for the 1 
million American workers whose benefits have expired, and Congress 
should pass the Crane-Rangel bill which gives incentives to those 
companies that manufacture in the United States, not continue to give 
big corporate tax breaks to the largest companies in the world who send 
jobs to China and send jobs to Mexico.

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