Sherrod Brown: “GE Aviation with Boeing signed a new deal exporting planes…”

“That facility will be built by union workers, electricians and carpenters and laborers and pipe fitters and other workers in the skilled trades. Hyperion of fuel manufacturers opening the largest factory built in Columbus in a decade, creating 700 jobs. GE Aviation with Boeing signed a new deal exporting planes built with next generation jet engines developed in southwest Ohio, supporting thousands of Ohio jobs. So I was flying into Columbus with Senator Portman a couple of weeks ago to join intel to announce those jobs. I was thinking today we're finally burying the term rust belt.” (00:35–00:48)

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