[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 19, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4100]
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SA 785. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 A of title VIII, add the following:
SEC. 811. OUTSOURCING PREVENTION.
(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Defending American Jobs Act''.
(b) Eligibility for Contract Award.--The Secretary of
Defense may not enter into or renew a contract for the
procurement of property or services unless the contractor
certifies that, during the previous 5 years, the contractor
has not outsourced a domestic operation or, in the case of an
operation so outsourced, the contractor certifies that the
operation has moved back to the United States.
(c) Annual Certification.--Beginning on the date that is
one year after a contractor enters into a contract described
under subsection (b), and annually thereafter for the
duration of the contract, the contractor shall certify
whether it has outsourced a domestic operation since entering
into the contract.
(d) Outsourcing Defined.--In this section, the term
``outsourcing'', with respect to a domestic operation, means
a plant closing or mass layoff (as described in section 2(a)
of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (29
U.S.C. 2101(a)) in which the employment loss (excluding any
part-time employees) for positions which will be moved to a
country outside of the United States exceeds 50 employees.
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