Senator Tammy Baldwin
UNITED STATE Senator Tammy Baldwin (D.Wis) today presented the bipartisan Strengthening Buy America forSmall Shipyard Grants Act It intends to reinforce Buy American needs for government Small Shipyard Grant financing. The expense is cosponsored by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA).
While Buy American needs currently relate to the Small Shipyard Grant Program, according to a news release provided by Senator Balwin’s workplace “there is a loophole in the Maritime Administration’s rules for commercially available, off-the-shelf products. Therefore, these federal grants may be used to purchase equipment that is not made in America.”
Senator Baldwin’s regulations would certainly shut this technicality to assistance American organizations and also employees such as Marine Travelift in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., which utilizes almost 200 employees and also usages Wisconsin- sourced products to make watercraft handling devices that is exported all over the world. It would certainly call for that items and also products acquired with tiny shipyard give financing, consisting of any kind of readily readily available, off-the-shelf product, are produced in the United States.
“I strongly believe that American taxpayer dollars should be used to support American workers and American-made products,” claimedSenator Baldwin “This legislation will make sure that federal Small Shipyard grants are used to purchase American products, made by American workers and businesses.”
“Buy American is common-sense policy that we need more of,” claimed Erich Pfeifer, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Marine Travelift in Sturgeon Bay,Wisconsin “Wisconsin businesses make world-class products, and this bill will help prevent us from being undercut by our own tax dollars going toward competing foreign-built equipment.”
“This legislation will help Wisconsin marine manufacturers, and when our customers win, we suppliers do too,” claimed Jason Nessinger, General Manager of ExacTech in Sturgeon Bay,Wisconsin “We appreciate the senator’s leadership on this important proposal.”
