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Dear ************,
I was able to spend the past month criss-crossing Missouri, hearing from hardworking folks across the state - folks who want their leaders to stop worrying so much about the next election and start working together.
Politicians in Congress should borrow some common sense from Missouri’s manufacturers.
I spent the month of August visiting businesses back home, listening to employers’ concerns about job creation and gathering their ideas and input.
In Kansas City, employers voiced a need for stronger, more efficient job skills training. At the St. Louis Agency on Training & Employment (SLATE), we discussed the need for eliminating duplication and waste in federal job training efforts.
Manufacturers across the state, from Sikeston to Concordia, from Springfield to Hannibal, told me about the need to crack down on unfair trade practices that put American businesses at a disadvantage. I heard frustration from our businesses about duty evasion - the practice of foreign companies smuggling products into the country to avoid paying penalties they owe when they have been caught engaging in unfair trading practices.
This week I will introduce legislation to address duty evasion, a direct result of my meetings in Missouri. The legislation would, among other things, make it easier for officials to hold cheating foreign companies to account.
We need solutions, but we need unity and common sense to prevail. Already, I’ve started working on ways to help our businesses grow and create jobs.
In Columbia, I announced a new measure aimed at protecting American jobs from being shipped overseas. Visiting with the folks at the MBS Textbooks call center, I described how we can encourage companies to keep call centers in the United States and boost transparency for consumers. My plan may help prevent call center jobs from being outsourced by requiring customer service representatives to alert callers to the fact that their calls are being transferred abroad.
Across the state, it didn’t matter what kind of business they ran, or their political affiliation - the message from employers was the same: elected leaders in Washington need to put political games and extremism aside, and compromise on commonsense ideas to create jobs.
Those are the voices I brought back with me. I plan to fight for their ideas in the U.S. Senate. And I hope to hear the same from the President and my colleagues in Congress.
All the best,
..................... One would note in Claire's letter that she never mentioned talking to employees or workers, only Employers, Businessmen & Manufacturers.... I guess we can figure where she stands.
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