[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9441]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              BUY AMERICA

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, in the last year of the Bush 
administration, the Department of Defense, under President Bush, 
authorized a 450 percent increase in the number of waivers we grant to 
this Nation's Buy America law, allowing in just 1 year thousands of 
American jobs to be sent overseas using U.S. taxpayer dollars.
  We have the defense reauthorization bill on the floor this week, and 
we have a chance to say no more, that one of the best ways to grow our 
domestic economy is to make sure that our own U.S. taxpayer dollars, 70 
percent of which are used with respect to U.S. procurement on defense 
items, stay right here in this country.
  The stimulus bill is working. It's creating American jobs. But 
without spending one dime more of American money, we can stop this 
trend of more and more waivers being granted to the Buy America laws 
and apply U.S. taxpayer dollars to create U.S. jobs.

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