Barack Obama: “We want to be building and exporting the goods that create jobs here…”

On the recordDecember 3, 2010

We want to be building and exporting the goods that create jobs here in America and that keeps the United States competitive in the 21st century.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on the South Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement

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Barack Obama: “We want to be building and exporting the goods that create jobs here in America and that keeps the United States…”