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Earned over 10 years at the helm of this company. in the coming days we will announce the labor leaders and economists and others who will join jeff to help guide us into that overdrive mode. i know that this council will be an important asset as we seek to do everything that we can to spur hiring an ensure the nation can compete with anybody on the planet, and that means spurring innovation in growing industries like clean manufacturing, and ensure that the economy is not held back by broken roads and crumbling infrastructure, and it means educating our people. i had a chance to meet one of t...

Leaders this week and jeff joined me at the state dinner. during these meetings we struck a deal to open chinese markets to our products. they're selling here and that's fine. but we want to sell there. we want to open up their markets so that we got two-way trade, not just one-way trade. [ applause ] so the deals we struck are going to mean more than $45 billion in new business for american companies. $45 billion. that's -- translates into 235,000 new jobs for american workers. [ applause ] and that's also why i fought hard to negotiate a new trade deal with south korea that will support more...

Voices and ideas from business leaders and from experts who weren't part of the usual washington crowd. and i tasked jeff and the other advisors with one mission -- help to steer our nation from deep recession into recovery. help take the economy from one that is shrinking to one that is growing. and over the past two years i've been very grateful for their advice. and i especially want to commend the man who chaired the panel, one of the nation's preeminent economists, the former head of the federal reserve paul volker. he offered unvarnished advise and he wasn't afraid to counter the convent...

Is putting our economy into overdrive. our job is to do everything we can to insure that businesses can take root and folks can find good jobs and america's leading the global competition that will determine our success in the 21st century. and so now to help fulfill this new mission, i'm assembling a new group of business leaders and outside advisors. and i am so proud and pleased that jeff has agreed to chair this panel, my council on jobs and competitiveness because we think ge has something to teach businesses all across america. i hope you don't mind, i'm going to brag about your boss for...

Thank you. now, jeff, thank you for the outstanding introduction. and thank you, ge. it is great to be here. i just had a chance to see some of the high-tech steam turbines and all kinds of fancy stuff that's being made here, being manufactured here at this plant. and it is unbelievably impressive. it's part of a proud tradition. because ge has been producing turbines and generators here for more than a century. a lot has changed since those early days. we have seen technologies transform the ways we work and the ways we communicate with each other. we've seen our economy transform by rising c...