[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 23630-23631]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HELPING THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, recent events in the State of Ohio makes 
it urgent that this Congress address issues that relate to the 
automotive industry. Delphi's recent bankruptcy filing may result in 
the closing of several Ohio plants that provide thousands of jobs. 
General Motors' sharp cutbacks in health care benefits for UAW members 
and retirees as well as Ford's announcement of sharp job cutbacks 
beginning in January of 2006 possibly affecting at least one major auto 
production facility make it imperative that we come together to do 
everything we can to help protect America's automotive industry.
  And we are doing that in Ohio by organizing not only our elected 
officials and our labor officials but the business community in coming 
together to address the challenge to one of our State's largest 
employment sectors that can only be met by a coordinated effort of our 
entire delegation.
  The automotive industry is in a state of crisis. We are cooperating 
to bring

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together all of the resources possible to make sure that we protect the 
jobs of autoworkers as well as all the allied unions who work with them 
and to make sure that one of America's great industries has the 
strength to endure.

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