Expand the Buy America program to include pharmaceuticals.

Robert B. Aderholt · Alabama · Republican

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Created the Buy America program to strengthen our steel industry and plans to expand this important program to include pharmaceuticals thus reducing our reliance on China for medical production

The campaign says he plans to broaden the Buy America program so it covers pharmaceuticals as well as steel.

Issues
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Evidence

The bill title and summary say it is the "Manufacturing API, Drugs, and Excipients in America Act" and that it would "mitigate drug shortages" and incentivize manufacturing of "active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients, medical diagnostic devices, pharmaceuticals, and personal protective equipment in the United States."

Official congressional record shows a concrete pharmaceuticals-manufacturing proposal, but it was a tax-credit bill introduced by another member and did not expand Buy America itself; it remained introduced and later only moved to a subcommittee in December 2024.

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All Info - H.R.2707 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): MADE in America Act
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Assessments

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The cited evidence shows only an adjacent pharmaceutical domestic-manufacturing tax-credit proposal in the 118th Congress, introduced by another member, that did not expand Buy America coverage to pharmaceuticals and did not become law. The payload does not show Aderholt writing, sponsoring, materially advancing, or otherwise delivering the promised Buy America expansion during or after the 2018 House term.

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