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President Obama on Monday announced new executive actions to help spur advanced manufacturing. Improving American manufacturing is a goal shared by both the executive and legislative branches and by Republicans and Democrats alike, and members of the Energy and Commerce Committee have been on the frontlines of this effort. This Congress, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade launched a Nation of Builders initiative aimed at supporting American manufacturers and making American manufacturing more competitive in the global marketplace.

Throughout the 113th Congress, the subcommittee held...

Today is Manufacturing Day, a day to celebrate our nation of builders and manufacturers’ great contributions to America’s economy. To commemorate Manufacturing Day, over 1,500 events are being held across the country today to showcase American manufacturers and their successes. President Obama and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker are celebrating with a trip to Millennium Steel Service in Princeton, Indiana, and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) participated in an event at Mach Mold in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Manufacturing Day participants this year have some...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on "Cross Border Data Flows: Could Foreign Protectionism Hurt U.S. Jobs?" The hearing examined cross-border data flows – the transfer of data across international borders – and how it impacts jobs and businesses in nearly every sector of our economy, and heard from witnesses about how efforts to restrict data flows have harmed economic growth to the tune of billions of dollars. The need to protect cross-border...