[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1543 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1543

  To require the procurement of iron and steel products from American 
                    sources, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2019

 Mr. Stauber (for himself, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Peterson, Mr. 
Guest, Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio, Mr. Duffy, Mr. Fortenberry, and Mr. Bost) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the procurement of iron and steel products from American 
                    sources, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American Workers for Security Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO BUY STEEL FROM AMERICAN SOURCES.

    (a) In General.--No funds appropriated or otherwise available may 
be used by a head of an entity of the Federal Government for the 
procurement of a steel or iron product for the purpose of building a 
physical barrier along the land border with Mexico if the steel or iron 
product is not produced in the United States unless the head of the 
entity concerned determines that--
            (1) the procurement of such a steel or iron product 
        produced in the United States--
                    (A) is inconsistent with a public interest or 
                defense interest; or
                    (B) would increase the cost of building a physical 
                barrier along the land border with Mexico by more than 
                25 percent; or
            (2) no such steel or iron product produced in the United 
        States is available.
    (b) Produced in the United States.--For the purposes of subsection 
(a), a steel or iron product shall be considered produced in the United 
States if the manufacturing of that product, from the initial melting 
stage through the application of coatings, occurred wholly in the 
United States.
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