07/30/2013
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"I have always said to have an economy and to have a middle class, you have to make things and grow things."
"If you are confirmed will you commit to working with me and working with the industry and all of colleagues who care about this, to use administrative authority available to you to provide our Nation'..."
"It is clear the President has focused on making things, which I appreciate in Michigan, but not growing things, which is equally important."
"I am very concerned about the cuts in President Trump's budget as it relates to those things."