A vibrant manufacturing sector is critical for America's economic success and success of the middle class.

At the end of the day, this bill is about setting aside politics and implementing policies that will create an environment conducive to the flourishing of American manufacturing.

We cannot afford to outsource our nation's defense.

There is a lot of ways that the government is impacting manufacturing already. It is just not doing it necessarily in a smart, thoughtful manner.

I think it is very important that you raised technologically advanced manufacturing here because I think a lot of people, when they think about manufacturing, they don't think about advanced manufacturing.

I think most people here agree and I certainly agree that we don't want to be here picking winners and losers

I applaud Congressman Lipinski, Congressman Kinzinger for their leadership to develop and sponsor the bill.

I have been working for the last four years on this legislation to put more Americans to work by creating an economic environment that would boost domestic manufacturing.

Simply put, 'Made in America' equals American jobs and a strong economy.

Today's hearing allows us to examine the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013.

Clearly, manufacturing is of critical importance to the American economy.