WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, held a hearing titled “Made in the USA: How Main Street is Revitalizing Domestic Manufacturing” to examine how small businesses are driving innovation and job creation by bringing manufacturing back to the United States.

“Made in the USA businesses drive economic growth, strengthen supply chains, and revitalize communities,” said Chairman Williams. “As President Trump continues to prioritize domestic production, it is more critical than ever that we support small manufacturers. The Committee on Small Business is fighting to improve the skilled workforce, increase access to capital, and provide tax relief, ensuring small businesses continue to lead innovation in America and on the world stage.”

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Watch the full hearing here.

Below are some key excerpts from today’s hearing:

Rep. LaLota: “What is the benefit, in your mind, of onshoring, reshoring jobs? From a quality-of-life perspective, from an inflation perspective, from an affordability perspective—why should Congress care to promote policies that onshore and reshore?” Mr. Moser: “From a national perspective, I think, at the bottom line, the defense infrastructure: the ability to produce the missiles, and the bullets, and the tanks, and everything else we need—hopefully will never need. But if we do need them, we have to be able to produce them, and we don’t have anywhere near the capability to produce them. But also, in terms of excellent jobs, it used to be that a manufacturing job was a great job. It’s not seen that much anymore, but it’s starting to come back. Especially as we promote the success of reshoring and the success of manufacturing, more of our youth will choose that role and have excellent careers.”

Rep. Wied: “Mr. Voss, in your statement, you talked about companies that you work with overseas, in your experience, that you said were eating the costs of tariffs. Can you expand on your experience in working with other companies, and importing, and the cost of tariffs?” Mr. Voss: “Sure. So, through the years, you know, we have imported from manufacturers abroad. We still do. A much lesser percentage of the goods we distribute come from foreign sources, but the ones that we continue to do now, we have not seen an increase in our costs because we’ve pushed back because, frankly, if they would have put the burden of the tariff on us, they would have no longer been competitive. So, in that case, the tariff did exactly what it was supposed to do, in that they took a smaller slice of the pie rather than passing it on to the consumer here. And moving forward, we are seeing input costs—polycarbonate resin, for example—the cost of that is coming down. That’s going to be reflected in our pricing to our customers and our customers’ pricing in the marketplace.”

Rep. Jack: “You’ve discussed today the importance of innovation for manufacturers and how manufacturers account for 53 percent of private R&D spending. So, despite only making up 10 percent of GDP, they account for 53 percent of private R&D spending. So, how do provisions like immediate R&D expensing ensure that manufacturers are able to continue to lead in innovation?” Mr. Crain: “Thank you for that question, Congressman. You’re absolutely right that innovation is the lifeblood of manufacturing. Innovation is so critical that immediate R&D expensing had been the law of the land for 40 years, reducing the cost of R&D and empowering manufacturers to invest more in transformational technologies. Unfortunately, that policy expired in 2022, and so, through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, you all revived immediate R&D expensing and made it permanent, providing manufacturers the certainty they need to invest in long-term R&D projects and the capital availability they need to make those projects cheaper—to have life-changing, lifesaving products on manufacturing shop floors and manufacturing labs across the country, which is so critical to our industry's place here in America and on the world stage.”

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