[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9542]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ADVICE FOR WHITE HOUSE ON CREATING JOBS

  (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 came to 
Ohio, my home State, to try to defend his economic policies, a State 
that has lost 222,000 jobs since he took office. One out of every six 
manufacturing jobs in the State has disappeared since he took office. 
We have lost almost 200 jobs every single day of the Bush 
administration.
  Yet the President's answer, again and again and again, is more tax 
cuts for the wealthiest people in this country, with the hopes that 
maybe it will trickle down and provide a few jobs, which it has not, 
and more NAFTA-like trade agreements, which continue to hemorrhage 
jobs, continue to shift jobs overseas.
  The White House, instead of those two failed attempts at creating 
jobs and building our economy, the White House should support extending 
unemployment benefits to those 50,000 Ohioans who have seen their 
benefits expire, should pass Crane-Rangel legislation, bipartisan 
legislation that will give incentives for American companies to 
manufacture in this country, instead of giving incentives, as the Bush 
administration does, to the largest companies in the country that 
continue to export jobs overseas.

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