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Featuring: Rob Mercuri, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Pennsylvania, District 17

On The Issues: Rob Mercuri (3/27/2024)

Published March 27, 2024 | Video Starts at 03:50

Yes. How would that experience translate into serving a Congress? Well, there's a lot of translatable skills from my time in finance. I worked for PNC bank for seven years in the risk and finance organizations. and I worked with Ernst and Young & PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York and then in Pittsburgh a little bit as well, and really learned a lot of skills related to how the economy works. (03:50–03:56)

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