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On the recordMay 8, 2012
Thank you very much for yielding. You said that, because I'm in my first term, maybe I didn't understand. Perhaps it's because you've been here a couple of years that you don't appreciate how jobs are really created in the real world, not here in Washington, D.C. You talked about Kansas. You may have forgotten that the air capital of the world, where 60, 70 percent of all aircraft are manufactured-- indeed, the business I was in for a decade--was good manufacturing jobs. What we didn't need was more taxes and more government spending. What we needed was the government out of the way.
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Mike Pompeo
Republican · Kansas

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