SENATORS VANCE, BALDWIN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO ENSURE TAXPAYER-FUNDED INVENTIONS ARE MADE IN AMERICA - Senator Vance
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WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, Senators JD Vance (R-OH) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure taxpayer-funded technologies are manufactured in the United States. While current law requires federally-funded inventions to be manufactured in the United States, the requirement is often waived, allowing cutting-edge, taxpayer-funded technologies to be licensed to foreign companies and manufactured […]

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“Taxpayer-funded innovations should benefit American workers and industry, not our foreign adversaries. For far too long, we’ve allowed American breakthroughs to be offshored to nations like China and Russia – this legislation will bring those abuses to an end,” said Senator Vance. “It’s common sense: products developed with American taxpayer dollars should be manufactured by American workers on American soil.”

“When taxpayer dollars are used to fund innovation, American companies and workers are the ones who should be reaping the benefits,” said Senator Baldwin. “By building on the progress we’ve made to manufacture more products in the USA, the Invent Here, Make Here Act ensures cutting-edge American innovation is also American-made, strengthening our manufacturing sector and our domestic supply chains, and supporting American jobs.”