The loss of manufacturing jobs after 2000 was just huge, and those jobs haven't come back.

It's hard to blame productivity growth for a lot of manufacturing job losses.

Currently we have construction job levels reaching toward the ceiling but manufacturing jobs are virtually at the floor. With hardly any room to fall further, it doesn't seem likely that problems in housing and in construction will spread to manufacturing this time.

Over the last five years, Wisconsinites have lost nearly 80,000 manufacturing jobs, largely because of unfair trade agreements and questionable administration policies.

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing. It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.

This bill is strongly and powerfully pro-manufacturing, ... It will stimulate manufacturing jobs in a sector that's been battered by the economic slowdown.