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On the recordMarch 23, 2004
President Bush was in my home State of Ohio in Cleveland near my district a week or so ago trying to justify his economic policy. Ohio has lost 300,000 jobs since President Bush took office. That is 2,000 jobs a week, 260 jobs every day. One out of six manufacturing jobs has simply disappeared in Ohio. His response is more tax cuts for the most wealthy in society, with trickle-down economics, hoping that it might create some jobs and trade agreements that ship more jobs overseas. It is not working. Mr. Speaker, this House of Representatives should pass the Crane- Rangel bill, which will give incentives to American manufacturing to grow their manufacturing jobs here. This Congress should pass that instead of what President Bush has tried: old trickle-down economics, which is not working.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Addressing job losses in Ohio and criticizing President Bush's economic policies.

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