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Mike Pence: “In a way, hiring a thousand or two or three unemployed scientists and engineers and other intellectual property…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2011
In a way, hiring a thousand or two or three unemployed scientists and engineers and other intellectual property professionals in a way would be its own jobs programs.
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Mike Pence
Republican · Indiana

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Pence suggests hiring unemployed professionals to tackle the backlog could create jobs.

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