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Similar to what we've had in the past. i had a law when i with us in the wisconsin legislature to have us buy american. a company, not a country, a company could challenge that and we could lose that provision. the same thing with buy local. in wisconsin, when i first got interested in this, i opened a union specialty printing business in 1998. we had parker penn in janesville, wisconsin, had about a thousand jobs at the time. when they closed down and sent the manufacturing to mexico, back in 2009 when they announced it, there were 150 jobs. so in that community that paul ryan and i share, th...

Here. because any corporation under this new agreement would be able to say if my future profits are impacted, i can challenge any law in any one of those countries and bring it before an international body, not the u.s. court system. i think the american people would say absolutely not. we want to be able to protect ourselves from outsourcing of jobs, even service jobs that are going overseas. >> so the sovereignty issue is really something -- >> it's a big deal. but, you know, we're also going to be competing with a country like vietnam where the minimum wage, 28 cents an hour. and we know w...

Mere fabric and is made in the u.s.a., and, thanks for the berry amendment that ensures america's soldiers, uniforms are made by american companies, bill? bill: amen to that. made in the u.s.a. thank you, molly. molly line in boston today. martha. martha: a free woman, right now, lindsay lohan out of the klink, 1:30 a.m. and where did she go as soon as they broke her out of jail. bill: that story has nothing to do with the next story, why a poll shows the number of americans who enjoy a drink has now hit a 25 year high. martha: no connection.