Marcy Kaptur: “Again, if the gentleman would be kind enough to yield, I would just place on the record that the State of Ohio is one of…”

“Again, if the gentleman would be kind enough to yield, I would just place on the record that the State of Ohio is one of the top five losers under NAFTA. We have already lost over 100,000 jobs to Mexico directly. That does not even count the supplier jobs and the service jobs that are associated with those corporate relocations. The impact is staggering. Income growth in our region and our State has not gone up. In fact, it has been stagnant, and in many cases has been going down. People do not have the purchasing power. And the jobs that are replacing them are part-time jobs with no health and retirement benefits. If we look at, and I will just give one example and then yield the gentleman back his time, but one of the major corporations, and I hate to pick on a West European company, but Daimler-Benz-Chrysler, for example, they are one of the many automotive manufacturers that have moved production to Mexico, and they manufacture the PT Cruiser in Toluca, Mexico. Now, that is a very popular vehicle in our country. All the PT Cruisers are sent back here. There is not a single PT Cruiser manufactured in the United States of America.”