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Rosa DeLauro: “We cannot sell our workers short, we cannot send their jobs…”

Featuring: Rosa DeLauro, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 3rd Congressional District

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 49 with Rep. Rosa DeLauro

Published | Video Starts at 34:35

I came here marketing when I came here post the NAFTA before I came to serve in the House of Representatives, early votes that I took here. And because We cannot sell our workers short, we cannot send their jobs overseas in the way that we have done. And everything that we thought said was going to happen with NAFTA did happen. People lost their jobs, they never gained their weight back. (34:35–34:43)

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Asserts that past trade practices have disadvantaged American workers by outsourcing jobs.

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