[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5487]
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SA 1002. Mr. DONNELLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the end of subtitle J of title VIII, add the following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON AWARDING OF CONTRACTS TO
RESPONSIBLE COMPANIES THAT PRIMARILY EMPLOY
AMERICAN WORKERS AND DO NOT ACTIVELY TRANSFER
AMERICAN JOBS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense
should award contracts to responsible companies that
primarily employ United States workers and do not actively
transfer United States jobs to foreign countries.
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