Marcy Kaptur: “Well, first of all, I want to compliment Congressman John Garamendi for his exceptional leadership in the Make It In…”

“Well, first of all, I want to compliment Congressman John Garamendi for his exceptional leadership in the Make It In America agenda and allowing Members like myself, Congressman Tonko from New York, and others to participate in focusing the spotlight on what counts. I wanted to follow on what the gentleman had said about what we import versus what we export. People say, well, America has a budget deficit. Well, we have a jobs deficit that grows from importing more than we export. You mentioned the energy sector, one that I have particular responsibility for here. Last year, we imported $369 billion more of petroleum than we exported energy products. That translates into lost jobs in our country of over 1.8 million, nearly 2 million jobs just in the energy sector that we could bring back home if we focused on an all-of-the-above energy strategy that would help us recapture that wealth. Those jobs here at home, automotive, a sector that our region of the country, Toledo, Sandusky, Lorain, Cleveland, Parma, and Brook Park, we know the auto industry very well. Last year, we imported into our country $309 billion worth of automotive products from countries that didn't accept our parts for vehicles--take Korea for one--and that lost wealth, that ceded power inside this economy translates, just in the auto sector, to over 1.5 million lost jobs just in 1 year. That is just 1 year.…”