mr. dingell for five minutes. >> madam chairman, thank you and i commend you for the hearing. i want to welcome my old friend secretary bryson here. mr. secretary, welcome. he has a distinguished record as a public servant and also as a very successful businessman who was interested in his community and produced great things. welcome. we're delighted you're with us. it's clear to me that manufacturing and innovation are connected. and in order to equip future workers with technical skills, it's now more important that we work hard on this than ever. i have some questions i think would be useful in us understanding what the administration are doing. this will require yes or no. mr. secretary, is it correct that for every $1 of federal investment in mep, american manufacturers generate approximately $30 in new sales growth and that that growth is shown to result in close to $4 billion in new sales annually? >> yes. >> thank you, mr. secretary. now is it true that -- >> you've worked on this for a long time and i respect it enormously. yes. >> well, i don't mean to hurry you in yo

mr. dingell forced into a hearing, and they asked me to come testify about camp lejeune and what happened at camp lejeune, and that was the first time that i testified, 2004. mr. --, who is no longer in - sdtupac congress, was on that committee and heard my testimony, and he said that if they ever won control of congress back and he became a chairman of a subcommittee in the energy commerce committee, he vowed that he would hold a hearing about tampa vision, and that is what happened. >> what did you offer the marine corps as an opportunity? i want to ask more about the general and his civilian colleague there, but what did you offer the marine corps when you made this documentary? >> we requested an interview multiple times, and they declined. we also asked to film on base, to film footage on the base, and they spent a day with us. they had people with us, and we were able to get footage of the base to bring back alive, but it was important to us that their perspective be represented in some way, and so we are fortunate that they were brought before congress and in front of other news ou

mr. dingell for five minutes. >> madam chair and, thank and i commend you for the hearing. i want to welcome my old friend, secretary bryson here. mr. secretary, welcome. he has a distinguished record as a public servant, and also as a very successful businessman who is interested in his community and producing great things. welcome. and we're delighted you're with us. >> thank you. >> it's clear to me that manufacturing and innovation are connected. and in order to equip future workers with technical skills, it's now more important that we work hard on this than ever. i had some questions i think would be useful in us understand what the administration is doing to this will require yes or no. mr. secretary, is it correct that for every 1 dollar of federal investment in mvp, american manufacturers generate approximately $30 in new sales growth at that growth is shown a result in close to $4 billion in new sales annually? >> yes. >> thank you, mr. secretary. now, is a true working -- [inaudible] spent i respect it enormously, yes spent well, i don't mean to her you. >> i not

mr. dingell for five minutes. >> thank you and i commend you for the hearing. i want to welcome my old friend, secretary bryson, welcome. it is a distinguished record as a public servant and as a very successful businessman who was interested in this community and produced great things. we're delighted you're with us. >> thank you. >> it is clear that manufacturing and innovation are connected. in order to equip future workers with technical skills, it is now important we work hard on this. i have some questions that i think will be useful to understand what the administration is doing. this will require yes or no. is it correct that for every $1 of federal and men inm.e.p. american manufacturers generate $30 in new sales growth? american manufacturers purchased software legally but i'm sure many companies overseas pay nothing for pirated software without a license. that puts our people at a tremendous disadvantage. what can the administration do to level the playing field for honest manufacturer's and lawfully purchase software and other information technology

mr. secretary, you've been washt with us today and we're appreciate of that. i know that congressman dingell asked you a little about information technology. in my district in tennessee, we've got a lot of performers as well as having a lot of small business manufacturers who purchase information technology in order to try to get a competitive edge. and then it turns around that they are competing with companies that in china or russia or somewhere that have stolen that information technology. and what i want to know from you is what can you do and can the federal government do anything about the competitive harms that are caused by the theft of that information technology that drives the efficiencies and always about other u.s. intellectual project that is stolen and specifically, are you going to put any strong ip protections in trade agreements like the transpacific partnership? >> the short answer is intellectual property that we do not get compensated for, that is taken in other countries and there's no compensation and no recognition of where that initially came from is flat-out a loss