‘Buy American’: Rick Scott urges people not to purchase products made in ‘communist China’

Editor’s note:  Sen. Rick Scott is pretty aggressive here. Don’t buy from China at all, he says. Buy American for jobs.  Sen. Rick Scott is calling on people living in the United States to stop buying Chinese-made products in retaliation against the country’s communist government. [Mica Soellner | May 12, 2020 | Washington Examiner] The Florida…

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CPA Praises New Online Country-of-Origin Labeling Act

Legislation would help consumers identify safe, American-made products  Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today praised the introduction of new, bipartisan country-of-origin labeling legislation by Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA). The new bill, the ‘Country of Origin Labeling Online Act’ (COOL), would mandate that…

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U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Rick Scott Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Promote Transparency Online and Support Made in America Goods and Companies

Editor’s note: CPA is proud to support this much needed law to require that goods sold online are clearly marked as to country of origin. Americans are more motivated than usual to buy USA made products. This is important for post-COVID recovery as well.  The COOL Online Act updates our labeling laws for the online…

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Op-ed | How exactly do we pay for needed COVID relief?

Editor’s Note: Michael Stumo is CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). Follow him on Twitter @michael_stumo. We’re now roughly two months into the global COVID-19 pandemic. Amid unprecedented economic disruption, Congress has already passed four pieces of bailout legislation at a cost of roughly $3.6 trillion. The spending is necessary, but one question keeps hanging in…

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