[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11491]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       RISE TO MEET THE CHALLENGE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Ford Motor Company has announced the closing of a 
casting plant in Cleveland where they're going to be outsourcing their 
engine casting business, and idling production at another engine plant 
for a year.
  We are seeing all these blue collar jobs outsourced in this country, 
and many white collar jobs as well. We're losing millions of 
manufacturing jobs. And it's not enough to just let this slide by 
without trying to challenge it.
  We have to have a new manufacturing policy in America where the 
maintenance of steel, automotive and aerospace is considered to be 
vital to our national economic security.
  We have to have a new not-for-profit health care system which covers 
all workers, so American businesses are not collapsed by the high cost 
of health insurance.
  And we have to have a new trade policy, which means the end of NAFTA 
and the WTO, and the beginning of trade based on workers rights, human 
rights and environmental quality principles.
  Our community in Cleveland is going to rally behind our auto workers. 
We're going to do everything we can to see if it's possible to save 
those plants and to make it possible to find ways of using those 
plants. But all across this country, we have to rise to meet this 
challenge.

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