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H.R. 6196: Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2006

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H.R. 6196: Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2006

109th Congress · introduced 2006-09-27 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2006-09-27 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2006

Plain summary

Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2006 - Directs each federal agency that provides grants, loans, or loan guarantees to businesses to require, as a condition of such assistance, that such businesses provide annually information on: (1) the number of employees employed in the United States and its territories and the number employed outside the United States, as well as wage information on U.S. employees; and (2) the percentage of the workforce that has been laid off or forced to resign during the preceding year. Prohibits, until the situation is corrected, subsequent federal assistance to businesses that lays off a greater percentage of workers in the United States or its territories than in other countries.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2006

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1] · 1 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Bernard Sanders (I-VT)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong109-hr6196 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109