Representative Garamendi, would you yield to a point? I believe I saw earlier a chart that you had on manufacturing jobs. Could you just put that one up on the easel over that pattern there and point to the '97 to 2009 curve? And it's a startling mimicking; those two graphs absolutely mimic each other. I think you can draw a correlation there that deals with the loss of manufacturing jobs as it relates to the trade deficit. I think that is something that ought to guide our discussions, guide our policy development and actually address the sort of response we need in terms of job creation and job retention.
Paul Tonko: “Representative Garamendi, would you yield to a point? I believe I saw earlier a chart that you had on manufacturing…”
On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
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