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House Oversight Subcommittee Hears Competing Plans to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing
Summary
Witnesses urged a mix of technology-led factory modernization, onshoring of supply chains and targeted industrial policy while lawmakers sparred over blanket tariffs and regulatory reform. No formal actions were taken.
WASHINGTON — Members of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs heard four expert witnesses outline contrasting strategies for bringing manufacturing back to the United States at a congressional hearing on the future of U.S. manufacturing.
The hearing featured company leaders who urged technology-driven onshoring and supply‑chain rules, and an economist who warned against broad, indiscriminate tariff policies. Lawmakers pressed witnesses on regulatory barriers, worker protections and national‑security risks tied to foreign suppliers, but the panel took no formal votes or actions.
The testimony centered on three linked goals: restoring domestic production capacity, protecting U.S. defense and critical-technology supply chains and improving job quality. Chris Power, chief executive officer of Hadrian, argued advanced automation and “AI driven factories” could raise worker productivity and speed reshore efforts, saying “the only way to reindustrialise this country is to leapfrog the Chinese system.”
Kevin Zinger, founder and executive chairman of Divergent, described his company’s digital…
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