House Democrats plan manufacturing jobs push | Reuters.
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WOW! Tax breaks and all. They must be scared of the elections coming up.But, they will probably throw so much other crap into there that the Republican’s won’t be for it. And that will be the plan.
That way they can say that the Republican’s are against tax breaks and creating manufacturing jobs.
Mark my words.
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Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning action on a number of bills to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
“We want to focus on … ‘Made in America,’” Hoyer told reporters. “We want to focus on encouraging — and yes, tax benefits would be part of this — expanding manufacturing.”
The push comes as Democrats in the House and the Senate face potentially heavy losses in November elections because of voters anxiety about the high U.S. unemployment rate of 9.5 percent and frustration with Washington in general.
It also follows a poll last month done for the Alliance for American Manufacturing that showed 86 percent of Americans wanted Washington to pay more attention to manufacturing.
The same survey of 1,000 likely voters found a majority no longer believed the United States was the world’s strongest economy and nearly half were worried the United States was too deeply in debt to China.
Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, said the biggest step Congress could take would be to pass China currency legislation along the lines of that crafted by Senator Charles Schumer and others in Senate.
“We’re pushing very hard for this,” Paul said.
