Video: Mayfield Village Company Hosts Deputy Secretary of Labor

Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris visited Quality Electrodynamics in on Tuesday to drum up support for President Obama's American Jobs Act.

Harris toured QED to see how the company designs and manufactures MRI radio frequency coil technology for human body imaging. He also had a press conference to discuss the $50 billion American Jobs Act and its impact on small businesses.

He said providing 100 percent tax breaks on expenses for new equipment and collecting no additional payroll tax for added employees would allow businesses to spend more money in ways that will create jobs.

"That will create more capital for him (QED President Hiroyuki Fujita) to be able to create the jobs", Harris said. "The Jobs Act has small businesses like QED in mind."

Fujita said electrical engineers, chemists and assembly workers are some of the jobs QED intends to add in the next few years. The company, started in February 2006, now has 81 full-time employees and he would like to double that number.

"If you don't have the energy and passion, you will not go anywhere," he said.

Fujita added that state of Ohio Third Frontier Program grants were key in enabling QED to make more innovative products. The company received a $1 million grant in 2010 for MRI coil development and a $1 million grant this year for development of an imaging system to determine organ viability.

Harris and other members of the Obama administration have been traveling across the county to gain support for the American Jobs Act, which he said has been broken down into smaller pieces in order to get past a Senate filibuster.

"Working people feel a real sense of urgency about getting this country and jobs going again," he said.