U.S. House Small Business Committee Chairman Don Manzullo (R-IL) organized more than two dozen of his House colleagues into a special caucus to preserve manufacturing jobs in America.

The Congressional Manufacturing Caucus, headed by Manzullo and co-chair Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), was called to order for the first time Thursday morning and immediately went to work discussing ways to preserve U.S. manufacturing jobs.

The United States has lost more than 2.6 million manufacturing jobs the past three years. "We are hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs in this country, and not enough of our political leaders understand the ramifications of losing our industrial base," Manzullo said. "We formed this caucus to not only educate Washington on the importance of manufacturing in America but to enact policies to stem the job loss and put our people back to work."

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