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Doug Bereuter: “Reclaiming my time, our economic health relies on a lot of things, but we cannot confuse cause and effect. If we lost…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2001
Reclaiming my time, our economic health relies on a lot of things, but we cannot confuse cause and effect. If we lost our export sector, we would be in deep trouble. Take my own home State, for example, agriculture being one of the two major largest exporters. One-third, maybe even more, of everything we grow, like the rest of this country, is export. If we lose that base, if we would write off 95 percent of the world's people, we are in a hopeless condition. I would say to the gentleman, I understand his ideological reasons for offering this. I happen to dramatically disagree. I think American citizens do not support the unilateral disarmament.
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Discussing the importance of the export sector to the U.S. economy.

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