latourette: and then, the mayor of twinsburg, ohio, if you haven't been to twinsburg, come this summer, it's famous for its twins festival, twins from cradle to very elderly twins show up. last year, i think we had 4,000 sets of twins. if you think you're seeing double, you'll see double in twinsburg in the twins festival. the mayor rote to mr. bloom, ron bloom, on the president's automobile task force and basically said, what happened? she was on the call she heard that everything was going to be ok. now all of a sudden she finds that a chrysler plant that provides 13% of her city's tax base is going to be closed and 1,200 people will be out of work. so basically she said, look, i watched the president, i was on these telephone calls. what happened? and mr. bloom, in a letter dated may 6, writes back that what the president's comments were meant to convey, they meant to convey the message that the bankruptcy of chrysler had in no way changed these plans. i ask unanimous consent to put this into the record as well. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. latourette: what the pl

they added money just to help those workers in twinsburg, ohio. that is great, but in the meantime, we have a tough time here. they have a huge facility

top of the 2,000 auto manufacturing jobs that will be eliminated by the closing of the chrysler twinsburg plant, the gm mansfield metal center plant and gm's power train unit in parma. these dealers and their employees, they're not merely statistics. they have families. they have mortgages. and dare i have say they have car payments. and in the time that i've been in congress we've been fighting. we've been fighting hard to try to keep those jobs in america. because if people do not have good jobs in the united states, they're not going to have any money to buy things. and they can't be consumers. and over the last few months along with my colleagues, many of them in this room we've been working on the consumer assistance to recycle and save act known as the cars act which passed earlier this week. and through the cars act manufacturers -- it's going to help manufacturers and it's going to help auto related jobs throughout the country while improving the environment and helping consumers. but again, it's called the cars act but it's really not about cars. it's about people. it's about the

yet, twinsburg workers and their families got the rug pulled out from under them last month. the crisis is playing itself out every day as auto suppliers struggle to find credit. it is not just mansfield and twinsburg, it is not just the loss of fewer than 100, but 80 or 90 people who represent families -- families in the columbus area who lost jobs when a g.m. plant -- a g.m. supply center is closing. it is also what's happening to the companies that supply the auto companies and they have -- they employ more workers than the auto companies themselves do. the crisis plays itself out every single day as auto suppliers struggle to find credit. the manfacturer has auto customers, banks seem to put them on a black list and don't want to extend any loans, even those backed by the small business administration. the crisis plays itself out in warren and dayton, where delphi salary workers who played by the rules are left without pensions that they deserve. from warren from dayton, from smaller communities are unfortunately not unique. there are stories from small ohio towns like tr