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Tammy Baldwin: “These plants are closing, those jobs are being offshored.”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Baldwin Discusses the Stop Bad Mergers Act

Published | Video Starts at 05:23

But there's no lack of demand for hearing aid batteries. Right. As our society ages. And so just the fact that These plants are closing, those jobs are being offshored. is so frustrating to me. But it's strengthening the hand of the Federal Trade Commission to be able to look at more factors when they're looking at approving or denying or placing conditions on a merger. (05:23–05:28)

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Asserts that jobs from the closing battery plants are being offshored.

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