we will hear from commerce secretary barry locke and this is about 25 minutes. --gary locke. [applause] >> we talked about how we can strengthen the impact of president obama's export initiative. after a decade in which america's economy relied too much on an increasingly hard- pressed american consumer for growth, president obama understand we need to get back to the basics. he believes we must reinvest in innovation and do a better job of connecting u.s. companies to the 95% of the world's consumers who live outside the borders of the united states. that is where the national export initiative comes in. this is an unprecedented and government-wide effort to be double american exports by 2015. it was designed with one overriding goal in mind. it is to put americans back to work in jobs that provide security, dignity, and a sense of hope for the future. over one in three manufacturing jobs and almost one in five agricultural jobs are tied directly to exports. these are good jobs that provide good wages. these are the type of jobs we need a lot more of. our export goals are on