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Josh Shapiro: “Steel that would be used to forge the Empire State Building…”

Featuring: Josh Shapiro, Democratic | Governor of Pennsylvania

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Published | Video Starts at 1:24:45

A community where it's been the center of activity and innovation for the last 150 years. Back then, innovation looked like a blast furnace in molten hot steel. Steel that would be used to forge the Empire State Building and protect our freedoms overseas. Today that innovation, well, it looks like lines of code and robots that scale walls of power plants. To make sure things are running smoothly, safely and efficiently. (1:24:45–1:24:52)

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Asserts that steel from Pittsburgh was used for the Empire State Building and military purposes.

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