[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11419]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   NEW DIRECTION IN AMERICA FOR 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, President Bush came to northeast 
Ohio, Youngstown, last week to try to defend an economic program that 
simply is not working in any of the Great Lakes industrial States. Ohio 
has lost one out of six manufacturing jobs since President Bush took 
office. We have lost almost 200 jobs every single day of the Bush 
administration.
  His answer to that is more tax cuts for the rich, hoping they trickle 
down and create some sort of economic activity, and more trade 
agreements like NAFTA that continue to ship jobs overseas. Those 
policies are not working.
  What we should be doing is extending unemployment benefits to the 
50,000 Ohio workers who have lost their benefits. We should reexamine 
these trade agreements. We should pass the bipartisan Crane-Rangel bill 
which gives companies incentives to manufacture in the United States, 
rather than giving tax breaks to the largest companies in the country 
which continue to outsource and continue to ship jobs overseas. That 
policy is not working.
  We need a new direction in Ohio and across the country.

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