Loebsack will keep jobs from going overseas

Dave Loebsack comes home to Iowa every weekend and meets with families, businesses, community leaders and workers from throughout the 2nd District. His No. 1 priority is job creation and economic recovery.

That is why he has his own bipartisan bill, the SECTORS Act, so that we can reinvigorate our manufacturing base and build things in America again. The SECTORS Act, passed unanimously by the House, aims to create and save jobs by strengthening the work force and bolstering industries and businesses.

His opponent, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, supports passing more NAFTA-style trade agreements - the same type of trade deals that have shipped countless U.S. jobs overseas, reduced American wages and hurt American workers.

If done right, trade agreements have the potential to create jobs, increase exports and help our economy recover. But continuing down the same failed NAFTA-style agreements means sending American jobs offshore and leaving American families worse off.

Loebsack understands that trade deals must benefit American workers, American wages and the American economy. He's a co-sponsor of legislation that would change the way we negotiate trade deals and move us away from the job-killing, NAFTA-style agreements while promoting American exports.

We need to re-elect Loebsack.

Shelley Parbs

President

Hawkeye Labor Council

Cedar Rapids