Dems introduce Buy America amendment to water bill (stripped out by the republicans)
Dems introduce ‘Buy America’ amendment to water bill
BY MELANIE ZANONA - 12/06/16 02:07 PM EST
A group of Democratic senators is planning to introduce a “Buy America” amendment to a waterways bill after House GOP leadership stripped the language from the final package.
Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) are leading the last-ditch effort to require American iron and steel products be used in certain drinking water projects.
They want to reattach the provision to a nearly $12 billion Water Resource Development Act (WRDA), which authorizes dozens of infrastructure projects around the country and is on track to pass the House this week.
“I’m not giving up on this fight,” Baldwin said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “Why would we pass a bill that only benefits Russian and Chinese steel corporations when we could be providing certainty to American manufacturers of steel and iron?”
During final negotiations on the waterways bill, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was responsible for dropping the provision from the package, sources familiar with the negotiations told The Hill last week. The language was included in the Senate-passed WRDA measure but not in the House version.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/309030-senate-dems-introduce-buy-america-amendment-to-water-bill
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who woulda thought.