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H.R. 2055: Make It At Home Act

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H.R. 2055: Make It At Home Act

114th Congress · introduced 2015-04-28 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-04-28 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness. 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

Make It At Home Act

Plain summary

Make It At Home Act It is the sense of Congress that it shall be the goal of the Secretary of Defense, in conjunction with the Secretaries of the military services, to ensure the management of the manufacturing workload of the military arsenals to maintain critical capabilities and ensure cost efficiency and technical competence in peacetime, while preserving the ability to provide an effective and timely response to mobilizations, national defense contingency situations, and other emergent requirements. The Secretary shall report to Congress on the equipment, weapons, weapons systems, components, subcomponents, and end-items purchased from foreign entities and identify: (1) those items which could be manufactured in U.S. military arsenals or military depots to meet such goals, as well as (2) a plan for moving that workload into U.S. military arsenals or depots.

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

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Official text

Make It At Home Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17] · 3 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Paul Tonko (D-NY)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr2055 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114