1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Build America, Buy America Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the United States must make significant investments to install, upgrade, or replace the public works infrastructure of the United States; (2) with respect to investments in the infrastructure of the United States, taxpayers expect that their public works infrastructure will be produced in the United States by American workers; (3) United States taxpayer dollars invested in public infrastructure should not be used to reward companies that have moved their operations, investment dollars, and jobs to foreign countries or foreign factories, particularly those that do not share or openly flout the commitments of the United States to environmental, worker, and workplace safety protections; (4) in procuring materials for public works projects, entities using taxpayer-financed Federal assistance should give a commonsense procurement preference for the materials and products produced by companies and workers in the United States in accordance with the high ideals embodied in the environmental, worker, workplace safety, and other regulatory requirements of the United States; (5) the benefits of domestic content preferences extend beyond economics; (6) by incentivizing domestic manufacturing, domestic content preferences reinvest tax dollars in companies and processes using the highest labor and environmental standards in the world; (7) strong domestic content preference policies act to prevent shifts in production to countries that rely on production practices that are significantly less energy efficient and far more polluting than those in the United States; (8) for over 75 years, Buy America and other domestic preference laws have been part of the United States procurement policy, ensuring that the United States can build and rebuild the infrastructure of the United States with high-quality American-made materials