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James Traficant: “Yesterday General Motors closed its plant in Flint, Michigan. Another 3,600 American manufacturing jobs gone. Meanwhile…”

On the recordJune 30, 1999
Yesterday General Motors closed its plant in Flint, Michigan. Another 3,600 American manufacturing jobs gone. Meanwhile, General Motors plants all over the world remain open. Think about it. While foreign workers are building American cars, American workers are getting pink slips. Beam me up. I do not blame General Motors. I blame our trade policy. Our trade policies are killing jobs and killing investment. The question I have today: If our trade policy is so good, why does Japan not do it? Why does China not do it? My colleagues, think about that. I yield back what manufacturing jobs we have left in America.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Addressing the impact of trade policy on American manufacturing jobs.

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