Speaking about China, job loss, the needs that we have, I have a chart here that shows that since President Bush has been in office, I am talking about the period from January 2001 through April of 2004, 48 of our 50 States have lost manufacturing jobs. These are jobs that traditionally pay decent wages, have benefits, enable a person to support their families, pay their taxes, support their communities. If we can just look at the heartland of our country here, and I am talking about our great State of Ohio, Ohio has lost 163,500 manufacturing jobs. That job loss is continuing. We now know from the recent statistics that just last month, Ohio lost more than 3,000 manufacturing jobs.
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Discussing job loss in manufacturing across the U.S. and specifically in Ohio.
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Congresswoman Scholten, thank you for that question. As you have pointed out, there are things that it will take companies some time to move forward with.
If we were to bring our barracks up to what I call safe, habitable, something that doesn't look run-down or uninhabitable like we saw on these slides, what would the price tag be for that?
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But I think solving the problem means coming up with a dollar amount and not being afraid to say it is a lot of money.





