[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8535]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WASHINGTON, WAKE UP

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, how many millions of more jobs have to be 
outsourced before Washington wakes up? It makes you wonder if the 
recently released report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is some sort 
of a cruel joke. It claims that U.S. trade agreements have supported 
5.4 million jobs. Are we talking about the same country?
  Take Ohio: Since 1994, employment just in the manufacturing sector 
has declined by one-third. Companies like Silgan Holdings, Delphi, 
Georgia Pacific, GM, Dixon Ticonderoga, and Champion Spark Plug all 
have moved to Mexico.
  Remember when NAFTA promised us the promised land, claiming we would 
get millions of new jobs and the standard of living would rise? What we 
got was the giant sucking sound, more jobs going out and a cumulative 
trade deficit of $1 trillion to this country as a result of NAFTA. The 
deficits from NAFTA and NAFTA-like trade agreements have caused our 
great manufacturing Nation to wither as our workers and companies are 
asked to compete against state-managed capitalism in places like 
Mexico, China and Japan.
  It is time to wake up, stand up for this country and renegotiate 
those agreements that keep moving our jobs offshore.

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