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Rep. Rick Larsen, WA-02, issued the following statement today regarding President Obama’s planned announcement in Everett of initiatives to promote jobs, manufacturing and exports.

"The President’s initiatives to help America’s businesses export their goods are exactly the way we will continue creating jobs in Washington state," Larsen said. "Promoting exports by helping finance small businesses and bringing down trade barriers is another shot in the arm to our state’s economic recovery.

"There's no better place than Northwest Washington to showcase American manufacturing and the potential to build our economy through expanding exports. As one of the country’s biggest exporters, one in three jobs in our state is tied to producing goods that are sold overseas. I have been helping small and medium businesses grow their exports through my District Export Promotion Program. Earlier this month I visited a small manufacturer in Bellingham called Specified Fittings. Their success in growing their sales overseas has led them to hire dozens of workers just in the last few months, and they are planning to hire even more. When we grow manufacturing, we can export our goods, not our jobs, overseas."