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Markwayne Mullin: “We've lost [manufacturing] because we've regulated the…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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ON BOARD! -- U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin

Published | Video Starts at 04:04

… sense of quality that comes or comes along when it's made right here in the United States. And we've lost that. We haven't lost that because the ambition isn't there. We've lost [manufacturing] because we've regulated the industry out of the United States. It's not because labor cost, you know, people can talk about labor costs. It's really not about labor costs because they're paying to bring the product back to us anyways. (04:04–04:13)

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Asserts that U.S. manufacturing has declined due to regulatory issues.

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