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“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Ohio. He is a valued member of the House Financial Services Committee, and his decades of work in private business and in manufacturing is ideal for this discussion. He knows about intermediate goods manufacturing and how a lot of those parts are made domestically, but some parts, critical parts, might be made abroad. Nonetheless, they allow us to create a competitive manufactured good here in the United States, employ Americans, and then potentially sell that domestically or export it to, yet again, another country. I appreciate his manufacturing expertise. We are also joined tonight by my friend from Illinois, a distinguished member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Darin LaHood, who comes from America's heartland of agriculture and can speak to the issue of how do we achieve this outcome that we want: more open markets, fairer and reciprocal trade, but how do we do that in a way that minimizes the impact on American consumers and our agricultural producers. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. LaHood), my friend. Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague, French Hill, for organizing tonight's Special Order on trade. I want to associate my thoughts tonight with the comments made by Congressman Davidson and also with Congressman French Hill. Mr.…”