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Brown-Blunt Manufacturing Jobs Bill One Step Closer To Becoming Law By Passing Through Committee(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown's (D-OH) and Roy Blunt's (R-MO) bipartisan manufacturing jobs legislation moved one step closer to becoming law. During an executive session of the Senate Commerce Committee, the bipartisan manufacturing hubs bill, the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act (RAMI), was passed out of Committee. Brown-Blunt would establish a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) and create thousands of high-paying, high-tech manufacturing jobs while enhancing the United States' role as the world's leader in advanced manufacturing. "Our workers can compete against anyone in the world," Brown said. "Establishing a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation would create thousands of jobs and ensure the United States remains the global leader in advanced manufacturing. I thank Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Thune, and the entire Commerce Committee for supporting this bipartisan legislation and helping it take another step towards becoming law." "I'm pleased we've taken the next steps to advance this bipartisan bill which would strengthen American innovation and job creation and position our nation as the global leader in advanced manufacturing by establishing an important network of partnerships in Missouri and across the country," Blunt said. "I thank Senator Brown for his tireless work to revitalize U.S. manufacturing, and I'll keep working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass pro-growth policies that encourage innovation and put more Americans back to work." RAMI would bring together industry, universities and community colleges, federal agencies, and all levels of government, to accelerate manufacturing innovation in technologies with commercial applications. These public-private institutes would leverage resources to bridge the gap between basic research and product development. Using this model, the Administration recently announced two new advanced manufacturing innovation institutes. One, the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII), will establish a unique public-private partnership jointly led by The Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, and the Columbus-based Edison Welding Institute (EWI). The project is projected to create more than 10,000 jobs in the next five years. This institute was based on the NNMI pilot, Youngstown's "America Makes," formerly the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII). Endorsements for the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act Associations/Organizations 1. Aerospace Industries Association 2. Alliance for American Manufacturing 3. America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) 4. American Association of Community Colleges 5. American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC) 6. American Chemistry Council 7. American Iron and Steel Institute 8. American Small Manufacturers Coalition 9. American Society for Engineering Education 10. ASME (founded as American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 11. Association of American Universities (AAU) & Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) 12. Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers 13. Business Roundtable 14. Center for Innovative Food Technology 15. Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce 16. City of Dayton 17. Columbus Chamber of Commerce 18. Columbus Partnership 19. Dayton Development Coalition 20. Dayton Region Manufacturers Association 21. Delaware BioScience Association 22. Delaware Manufacturing Extension Partnership 23. Edison Welding Institute 24. Forging Industry Association 25. Global Automakers 26. Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) 27. Jordan Valley Innovation Center 28. Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership 29. Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network (MAGNET) 30. Mayor Michael Coleman of Columbus, OH 31. Medical Device Manufacturers Association 32. Missouri Association of Manufacturers 33. Missouri Biotechnology Association 34. Missouri Economic Development Council 35. Missouri Enterprise 36. Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) 37. National Association of Manufacturers 38. National Composites Center 39. National Modeling and Simulation Coalition 40. The New England Council 41. Ohio Aerospace Institute 42. Ohio Association of Community Colleges 43. Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition 44. Ohio Manufacturers' Association 45. One Voice - the joint effort between the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) and the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) 46. The Optical Society 47. PolymerOhio, Inc. 48. Saint Louis Economic Development Partnership 49. Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) 50. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) 51. Society for Modeling and Simulation International 52. Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative 53. Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce 54. Tech Columbus Companies 1. Alcoa 2. ANSYS 3. Applied Materials 4. Appvion 5. AT&T 6. Autodesk 7. BAE Systems 8. Ball Corporation 9. BASF Corporation 10. Battelle Memorial Institute 11. Boeing 12. Brewer Science 13. Caterpillar Inc. 14. Corning 15. Delphi Automotive 16. DJW Technology 17. Dow Chemical 18. Dupont 19. Eastman Chemical Company 20. First Solar 21. GE 22. Goodyear 23. Graftech 24. Honda 25. Honeywell 26. IBM 27. Intel 28. Libbey Glass 29. Lockheed Martin Corporation 30. Navistar 31. New Balance 32. Nucor 33. Owens Illinois 34. Procter & Gamble 35. Raytheon 36. Rockwell Automation 37. Siemens 38. Silfex, Inc. and Lam Research Corporation 39. Smiths Group 40. SRC Holdings Corp 41. SunEdison 42. TechSolve 43. Texas Instruments 44. United Technologies 45. U.S. Steel Corporation 46. Volkswagen Group of America 47. Whirlpool 48. Xerox Universities 1. Carnegie Mellon University 2. Case Western Reserve University 3. Cincinnati State Technical & Community College 4. Delaware Technical Community College 5. Georgia Institute of Technology 6. Indiana University 7. Miami University 8. North Central State College 9. Northwest State Community College 10. The Ohio State University 11. Ohio University 12. Ohio University Innovation Center 13. Ozark Technical Community College 14. Rochester Institute of Technology 15. Stark State College 16. University of California - Berkley 17. University of California - Irvine 18. University of Cincinnati 19. University of Colorado-Boulder 20. University of Illinois 21. University of Michigan 22. University of Missouri 23. University of New Hampshire 24. University of North Carolina - Charlotte 25. University of Notre Dame 26. University of Southern California 27. University of Tennessee Knoxville 28. University of Toledo 29. University of Wisconsin-Madison 30. University of Wisconsin System 31. Washington State Community College 32. Youngstown State University 33. Zane State College TNS 30FurigayJane-140410-4699234 30FurigayJane (c) 2014 Targeted News Service |