{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-baldwin-casey-introduce-buy-america-amendment-to-water-infrastructure-bill-call-on-republican-leaders-to-take-action", "Brown, Baldwin, Casey Introduce Buy America Amendment to Water Infrastructure Bill, Call on Republican Leaders to Take Action", "2016-12-06", "2016", "2016-12", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Sherrod Brown", "B000944", "www.brown.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Republican House leadership removed Buy America, which previously passed the Senate by 95-3; Senators call on Republican leaders to reinsert provision or schedule immediate vote on amendment\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tTuesday, December 6, 2016\n            \n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Bob Casey (D-PA) today announced that they will introduce a \u2018Buy America\u2019 amendment to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) in the Senate and are calling on Republican leaders to add the provision back into the final bill.\r\nYesterday, Republican House leadership announced they removed the Buy America reform from the House-Senate compromise bill \u2013 even after the Senators led a letter demanding Buy America remain in the infrastructure bill. Stripping the Buy America provision will allow foreign companies to continue undercutting the American steel industry and its 1 million workers nationwide.\r\nThe Buy America reform could be added back into WRDA before the House votes on the bill later this week. If this does not occur, the Senators are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to schedule a vote on the amendment when WRDA gets to the Senate.\r\n\u201cAmerican tax dollars should go toward American-made steel that supports American jobs, and that\u2019s what we are fighting for,\u201d said Senator Brown. \u201cThis was the first major test for President-elect Trump\u2019s promises to put America first and it failed because Washington establishment Republicans chose China and Russia over Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. While President-elect Trump remains silent, we will continue to fight for American jobs.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\r\n\u201cBy removing my Buy America standard, Speaker Ryan and House Republicans embraced the status-quo in Washington,\u201d said Senator Baldwin. \u201cOur American manufacturers and workers deserve a solid commitment from us and I\u2019m not giving up this fight to build a made in America infrastructure. The choice for the Republican establishment in Washington is clear: Do you stand with American workers or do you support spending taxpayer dollars on Chinese and Russian steel for American water infrastructure projects?\u201d\r\n\u201cRemoving Buy America from this legislation will undermine our workers and make it harder for businesses who do want to create jobs at home,\u201d said Senator Casey. \u201cCongressional Republicans should stop blowing hot air about their claims to support workers and actually do something that will- reinsert Buy America into this bill.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\r\nLast Thursday night in Cincinnati, on the first stop of his \"Thank You Tour,\" Trump said his infrastructure plan would follow two simple rules: \u201cBuy American and hire American. We're going to do it ourselves.\u201d\r\nPresident-elect Trump has remained silent about the Republican House leadership stripping the Buy America reform from the water infrastructure legislation.\r\nThe Buy America standard in WRDA had already passed the Senate in September with broad bipartisan support before Republican House leadership stripped it from the final water infrastructure bill released yesterday. \r\n\u00a0\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tPress Contact\n\t\t\t\t\tContacts: Jenny Donohue/Rachel Petri\r\n202-224-3978", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-baldwin-casey-introduce-buy-america-amendment-to-water-infrastructure-bill-call-on-republican-leaders-to-take-action"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.5251409970223904, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}