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Sherrod Brown: “If we can keep it from increasing the Federal deficit, get it properly sized, as Senator Merkley often talks about…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2013
If we can keep it from increasing the Federal deficit, get it properly sized, as Senator Merkley often talks about, toward $1 trillion, and put a Made in America or domestic content requirement on it, then that is millions of instant new manufacturing jobs that would be created.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Advocates for a National Infrastructure Bank to create jobs without increasing the deficit.

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