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Jay Inslee: I think you seized on a very important point. This was not a decision by the GAO that they're just going to change this…

On the recordJune 19, 2008
I think you seized on a very important point. This was not a decision by the GAO that they're just going to change this decision because they decided to favor American jobs. Now, we think that's a really important point, but the really fundamental aspects of GAO is they concluded the rules were violated in making the decision of what the best airplane for the money was. They did not take into consideration American jobs. We essentially--the Boeing family sort of won this on the merits of the airplane without any sort of special consideration that we were the hometown team, and I think that's a really important point, and I appreciate you making that.
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Jay Inslee
Democratic · Washington

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Discussing a GAO decision related to Boeing and American jobs.

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