[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12041]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    JOBS AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, earlier this month the President of 
the United States made another trip to my State of Ohio to argue for 
and try to justify his economic policy.
  Ohio has lost one out of six manufacturing jobs since George Bush 
took office. Ohio has lost almost 200 jobs every single day of the Bush 
administration. Yet the President's answer invariably is more tax cuts 
for the wealthiest people, the most privileged people in the country, 
hoping that it trickles down and creates jobs. His other answer is more 
trade agreements, like the North American Free Trade Agreement, that 
continue to send jobs, continuing to hemorrhage jobs out of the 
country.
  Mr. Speaker, instead of these failed economic policies that have cost 
Ohio more than 200,000 jobs, we need to extend unemployment benefits, 
pass Crane-Rangel that actually gives benefits and rewards those 
companies that manufacture in the United States rather than giving tax 
breaks to those companies that continue to ship jobs overseas.

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