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Download in PDF format     Get free software to read and download PDF files. For Immediate Attention                                                             January 22, 2004   Manufacturing Employment Decline Began Before 2001 -- Consecutive Monthly Factory Job Declines Began in 2000 --    WASHINGTON, D.C. - Virtually all of the net payroll job loss in recent years is accounted for by the manufacturing sector, and this decline in factory jobs began before the current Administration took office, Vice Chairman Jim Saxton said today. Opponents of the Administration have repeatedly claimed that its policies have caused the decline in manufacturing employment, but fail to explain how this...

Recession Began With Clinton, Says JEC Posted Oct. 15, 2002 Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 The death-drop of the stock market did not begin with the Bush administration in January 2001, says the congressional Joint Economic Committee (JEC), but in March 2000 under the Clinton administration when it began its all-out attack on the entrepreneurs of the booming U.S. high-tech industry. Indeed, The Economist reports that this poisoning of the economic stream even may have begun in the late 1990s. According to JEC Chairman Rep. Jim Saxton, "The 2000 NASDAQ collapse also corroborates a variety of other data indicating that...