[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 26 (Thursday, February 16, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H816]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           MAKE IT IN AMERICA

  (Ms. HOCHUL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HOCHUL. Mr. Speaker, from Buffalo to Rochester, New York, people 
in my district want to get back to work. They just need the 
opportunity. That's why during budget hearings yesterday with the 
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, I posed 
the question: Can our government be doing more to make sure that our 
limited Federal procurement dollars are being spent on jobs in 
manufacturing right back here in America?
  The answer is, yes. They want to work with us, and we need to work 
together to make more of our limited dollars spent in companies that 
have a higher percentage of the American workforce right here making 
our defense systems and our products for the Department of Homeland 
Security. My policy is to give more preferences to those businesses 
based on the percentage of workers in America.
  We need to have a policy that is going to reward those companies and 
not penalize them. We need to create more opportunities for 
manufacturing right here in America and in my district in upstate New 
York.
  So I look forward to working collaboratively. I'm going to introduce 
legislation that I expect to be bipartisan in nature. Who could not 
agree that we could do more to make it in America?

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