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Lee Terry: “We talked about jobs, that we are losing our manufacturing, our middle class. And what a lot of people don't understand…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2007
We talked about jobs, that we are losing our manufacturing, our middle class. And what a lot of people don't understand is it is our energy policy that is driving those jobs offshore. Yes, there are some that are offshoring, taking maybe telephone answering jobs over to India. But our policies are driving a lot of our good manufacturing jobs away.
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Lee Terry
Nebraska

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Discussing the impact of energy policy on manufacturing jobs during a floor speech.

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