text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Office of Domestic Product Promotion 
  Act''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
  
      The Congress finds as follows:
              (1) In 2007, the United States trade deficit for goods 
          reached $815 billion.
              (2) In March 2005, manufacturing employment in the United 
          States fell to 14.3 million. This number is lower than it was 
          in 1945, when the population of the United States was more than 
          50 percent less.
              (3) In 2006, United States manufacturing's share of the 
          Gross Domestic Product was approximately half what it was in 
          1950.
              (4) The earnings of United States manufacturing workers 
          exceed the earnings of workers in the service and other 
          sectors.
              (5) Each United States manufacturing job creates as many as 
          four related jobs.
              (6) The promotion of domestically produced goods is 
          beneficial for United States workers and the United States 
          economy.
  
  SEC. 3. DEFINITION.
  
      In this Act the term ``domestic product'' means a product--
              (1) that is manufactured or produced in the United States; 
          and
              (2) at least 65 percent of the cost of the articles, 
          materials, or supplies of which are grown, mined, produced, or 
          manufactured in the United States.
  
  SEC. 4. OFFICE OF DOMESTIC PRODUCT PROMOTION.
  
      (a) Establishment.--There is hereby established within the 
  Department of Commerce an Office of Domestic Product Promotion 
  (hereinafter referred to in this Act as the ``Office'').
      (b) Duties.--The Office shall--
              (1) work with United States businesses to promote domestic 
          products;
              (2) provide information and advice to United States 
          businesses on benefits and incentives available to United 
          States businesses for producing domestic products, including 
          the award of Federal procurement contracts and Federal and 
          State tax benefits;
              (3) establish a comprehensive database of businesses that 
          use, sell, or would prefer to use or sell, domestic products, 
          and make the information in such database available to the 
          public, including on a website that a user can sort and search 
          by the State, county, city, or congressional district of a 
          business, as well as by product type;
              (4) develop, with input from private businesses, non-profit 
          businesses, labor organizations, academic institutions, and 
          other entities, tools and ideas on how to promote domestic 
          products; and
              (5) coordinate with State governments to further the 
          Office's performance of its duties.
  
  SEC. 5. COMPOSITION OF THE OFFICE.
  
      (a) National Director.--
              (1) Selection.--The Office shall be headed by a National 
          Director, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with 
          the advice of the Senate.
              (2) Term.--The National Director shall serve a term of 5 
          years. A National Director whose term has expired may continue 
          to serve until the date on which a successor takes office.
              (3) Compensation.--The National Director shall be 
          compensated at the rate provided for level V of the Executive 
          Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code.
      (b) Staff.--The National Director shall appoint, terminate, and fix 
  the compensation of such employees of the Office as the National 
  Director considers necessary to carry out the functions of the Office, 
  except that no rate of pay fixed under this subsection may exceed the 
  equivalent of the rate provided for level V of the Executive Schedule 
  under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code.
  
  SEC. 6. REGIONAL OFFICES.
  
      (a) In General.--The Office shall have six regional offices, each 
  headed by a regional director, and one regional office shall be located 
  within each of the following six regions:
              (1) Region 1, consisting of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, 
          Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
              (2) Region 2, consisting of the District of Columbia, 
          Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 
          Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
              (3) Region 3, consisting of Virginia, North Carolina, South 
          Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 
          Louisiana, and Arkansas.
              (4) Region 4, consisting of California, Oregon, Washington, 
          Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and Hawaii.
              (5) Region 5, consisting of Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, 
          South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, and 
          Wisconsin.
              (6) Region 6, consisting of Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, 
          Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.
      (b) Duties.--The regional offices shall--
              (1) support the Office in performing the Office's duties; 
          and
              (2) concentrate on issues affecting the promotion of 
          domestic products produced in the region in which the regional 
          office is located.
      (c) Regional Director and Staff.--
              (1) Appointment.--The National Director shall appoint, 
          terminate, and fix the compensation of each regional director, 
          except that no rate of pay fixed under this paragraph may 
          exceed the equivalent of the rate provided for level V of the 
          Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States 
          Code.
              (2) Qualifications.--Each regional director shall have 
          knowledge of the domestic products produced in the region in 
          which the regional office is located and region-specific issues 
          related to the promotion of the region's domestic products.
              (3) Regional office staff.--Each regional director shall, 
          with the approval of the National Director, appoint, terminate, 
          and fix the compensation of such additional employees of the 
          regional office as the regional director considers necessary to 
          carry out the functions of the regional office, except that no 
          rate of pay fixed under this paragraph may exceed the 
          equivalent of the rate provided for level V of the Executive 
          Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code.
      (d) Regional Conventions.--Each regional office shall hold an 
  annual convention to help connect United States businesses producing 
  domestic products with consumers who want to work with domestic 
  products, address domestic product production issues, and generate 
  ideas on how to promote domestic products.
  
  SEC. 7. REPORTS TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS.
  
      The National Director and the Secretary of Commerce shall submit an 
  annual report to the President and the Congress on the operation of the 
  Office, including recommendations on strategies for promoting domestic 
  products.
  
  SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.
  
      There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
  necessary to carry out this Act.
target: Office of Domestic Product Promotion Act - Establishes within the Department of Commerce an Office of Domestic Product Promotion to: (1) work with U.S. businesses to promote domestic products; (2) provide information and advice to them on benefits and incentives available for producing domestic products, including the award of federal procurement contracts and federal and state tax benefits; (3) establish a comprehensive publicly available database of businesses that use, sell, or would prefer to use or sell, domestic products; (4) develop tools and ideas on how to promote domestic products; and (5) coordinate with state governments to further the Office's performance of its duties.
feat_title: To create an Office of Domestic Product Promotion within the Department of Commerce to promote the sale of United States products.