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Jack Bergman: “If you export products, that means you're exporting jobs.”

Featuring: Jack Bergman, Republican | U.S. House Michigan, 1st Congressional District

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Rep. Jack Bergman discusses his passion for serving his country | In Focus

Published | Video Starts at 11:40

It means your airplane could fall out of the air. Okay? So we as a country need to be forceful but collegial in our negotiations with other countries about import, export, you Cannot. If you export products, that means you're exporting jobs. We know that the jobs that we had 20 years ago or 40 years ago are not going to be the jobs of the future. (11:40–11:46)

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Asserts that exporting products equates to exporting jobs.

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