Congressman Dave Loebsack was in Pella and Knoxville on Friday. In Knoxville he took a tour of Hormel, and in Pella he enjoyed a visit to Tulip Time hosted by Pella Chamber Director Karen Eischen. Loebsack shared his thoughts on maintaining the strong manufacturing base in Marion County and nationwide through improving the skills gap in education, and in trying to create a strong and stable regulatory and tax environment for manufacturing.