[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 196 (Wednesday, October 12, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 61443-61444]
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[FR Doc No: 2022-22263]
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Proclamation 10468 of October 6, 2022
National Manufacturing Day, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Manufacturing is the backbone of America, powering our
economy and building our middle class. Over the past
year and a half, we have been making ``Buy American'' a
reality, not just a slogan, and bringing jobs and
companies home. This year's National Manufacturing Day
comes in the midst of an American manufacturing boom,
as we celebrate the strength and resilience of the
American worker and recommit to the investments and
innovation that will ensure the future is Made in
America.
Throughout the pandemic, even as factories closed and
supply chains stalled, American workers showed
incredible ingenuity and resolve to keep our country
moving forward. Today, we are experiencing the
strongest manufacturing rebound at this point in a
presidency in 3 decades, adding 668,000 manufacturing
jobs since my Administration began. Employers have
announced $200 billion in new manufacturing investments
here since 2021, and manufacturing construction has
more than doubled as companies are betting on America
again. But to really guarantee our economic strength
and national security, we have to do more by investing
in infrastructure, innovation, and our own supply
chains to bring prices down and good-paying union jobs
home.
That is why last fall, I signed the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, a once-in-a-generation investment
in America's roads, bridges, railways, and ports, which
will boost demand for American iron, steel, and
construction materials. It is why we are helping to
train the workforce of the future--supporting STEM
education and tech hubs across the country, pushing
companies to partner with community colleges and
technical schools, and bolstering Registered
Apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeship programs funded
by the American Rescue Plan. It is why we are using the
Government's purchasing power to grow the market for
American-made goods. One of the first things I did as
President was tighten Federal ``Buy American''
provisions, raising the amount of required domestic
content from 55 percent to 75 percent. When the Federal
Government spends taxpayer dollars, it should spend
them on American-made products.
Meanwhile, we are investing in tomorrow's biggest
industries--clean energy; advanced biotechnology;
quantum computing; and semiconductors, the computer
chips that power everything from smartphones to
dishwashers and cars. In August, I signed the CHIPS and
Science Act, securing significant funding for domestic
manufacturing and research and development. America
invented the semiconductor; this law brings it back
home--and it is already drawing tens of billions of
dollars in private-sector investment and will create
tens of thousands of jobs. I also recently signed the
game-changing Inflation Reduction Act, which allocates
a record $369 billion to fight climate change, boosting
demand for energy-efficient appliances, homes, and cars
and creating millions of good-paying clean-energy and
clean-manufacturing jobs.
America is the only Nation in the world that can be
defined in a single word: possibilities. American
manufacturing makes those possibilities real. Today, on
National Manufacturing Day, thousands of manufacturers
across
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the country are opening their doors to give a new
generation of students, teachers, and builders a
glimpse of the opportunities that a career in modern
manufacturing offers. We stand with them and commit to
winning not just the jobs of today but the jobs and
industries of tomorrow. The United States is in a
position to outcompete the world once again.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 7,
2022, as National Manufacturing Day. I encourage all
Americans to look for ways to get involved in your
community and join me in participating in National
Manufacturing Day, and, most importantly, buy American.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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[FR Doc. 2022-22263
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