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Sam Graves: “For every one of those jobs we get as assembling Chinese parts over here, we lose 3.5 jobs in our economy.”

On the recordMay 15, 2019
For every one of those jobs we get as assembling Chinese parts over here, we lose 3.5 jobs in our economy.
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Sam Graves
Republican · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Graves highlights the negative economic impact of assembling foreign parts in the U.S.

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