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On the recordJuly 13, 2010
One of the great things about my part of Pennsylvania, and I really think Pennsylvania in general--I have to be a bit biased here--but we have a great ethic and we have people with great skills. We have been a manufacturing-based economy for a long time. So when businesses come there and they see the work ethic of the people, they want to stay, expand, and grow. And what we're doing is trying to provide that climate that will allow our businesses to grow and to provide those opportunities maybe for those new entrepreneurs that they have an opportunity to actually take that product that really could do great things in our country and do great things actually throughout the world. Because I see more and more of our businesses actually exporting also, and work that was going to Mexico and to China actually coming back, because we can make anything as well, if not better, than anybody else in the world. And we know that. So we're working hard. As I mentioned, great numbers coming out of our district because there's new products, there's new clientele, there's expansion and creation going on throughout many different sectors of our manufacturing-based economy.
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KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER
Pennsylvania
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Jul 13, 2010

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The speaker discusses the strengths of Pennsylvania's manufacturing economy and efforts to support business growth.

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