U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi uses story of father to argue for trade deals

By Jessica WehrmanThe Columbus Dispatch • Friday June 12, 2015 10:54 PM

WASHINGTON — When Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi was a high-school student, his father’s job — as a lathe operator for Weinman Pump Manufacturing on Spruce Street in Columbus — was eliminated.

To hear Tiberi tell it, that experience helped inform his position as one of the leading House members pushing Congress to pass two massive trade bills — one with Pacific Rim countries, and the other …