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“Mr. Tonko, thank you. I know that your previous work before you came to Congress several years ago was in the State of New York working on the innovation economy. You certainly have ramped up innovation economy in the State of New York, and now you are bringing that experience here with legislation. The Make It In America agenda, I am going to put it back up very, very quickly here because you talked about this. The Make It in America agenda is about the middle class; it is about rebuilding the middle class. Thirty-four members of the Democratic Caucus talked last week about their legislation dealing with trade and taxes, energy, labor, education, research, and infrastructure, about how that constellation of issues comes together to boost the American middle class, to give every American an opportunity for that middle class job. So it is there. I see we are about to be out of time, or maybe we are already out of time, so I am going to say I want to thank my colleagues and Mr. Hoyer for leading us in this. Mr. Tonko, you have got 30 seconds to close.”