[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9236]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, last week President Bush came through 
my State, the State of Ohio, in a bus trip to argue and defend his 
economic policies which have inflicted great damage on my State.
  We have lost, since President Bush took office, 177,000 manufacturing 
jobs. One out of every six manufacturing jobs in Ohio has simply 
disappeared since President Bush took office. We have lost 200 jobs 
every single day of the Bush administration, and the President's answer 
is more tax cuts for the rich, hoping it trickles down and creates some 
jobs. That has not worked.
  His other answer is more trade agreements like NAFTA, which frankly 
have shifted all too many jobs to China and Mexico.
  Instead, Congress should extend the unemployment benefits for those 
workers who are trying to find jobs, 50,000 in Ohio, a million across 
the country, who are trying to find jobs, who have lost their jobs.
  Extend unemployment benefits and pass the Crane-Rangel bipartisan 
bill which will give incentives to companies that manufacture in this 
country, rather than to give incentives and tax breaks to the 
President's biggest contributors, those corporations which shift jobs 
overseas.

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