50 U.S.C. § 4502
Declaration of policy
United States · Title 50 — WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE · Status: effective
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- 50 U.S.C. § 4502, Declaration of policy, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/492887
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Congress finds that—
to ensure the vitality of the domestic industrial base, actions are needed—
in order to provide for the national security, the national defense preparedness effort of the United States Government requires—
the development of domestic productive capacity to meet—
much of the industrial capacity that is relied upon by the United States Government for military production and other national defense purposes is deeply and directly influenced by—
It is the policy of the United States that—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Energy Security ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Defense Production Act Amendments of 1992House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Defense Production Act Reauthorization of 2009House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally