COLUMBUS, OH – Over the weekend, the Toledo Blade Editorial Board praised Sherrod’s All-American Flag Act for “send[ing] a reasonable message” and bringing “manufacturing back to the United States.” The Editorial Board also notes: “The flags that fly over the Capitol and in front of government facilities and national parks should be made in the United States.”
Sherrod’s All-American Flag Act ensures American flags purchased by the government are entirely made in America. Sherrod led the years-long fight to pass the legislation to ensure the symbol of our nation is made by American workers with American-made materials.
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Toledo Blade: Editorial: Reshoring stars, stripes
The Blade Editorial Board – August 3, 2024
- Reshoring of American manufacturing back to the United States of America is a welcome trend that we are happy to salute.
- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s bill requiring that American flags bought by the federal government must be 100 percent made in the United States is a symbolically appropriate act and not without substance.
- The bill, which he says he has been pushing since 2011, passed on July 22, and has been signed by President Biden. Until now, government-bought flags only had to be 50 percent American-made.
- According to the staff of Senator Brown (D., Ohio), the entire market for imported American flags in 2015 was $4.4 million. Of that amount, $4 million of imported flags came from China. In 2017, the U.S. imported 10 million American flags. Of those, all but 50,000 came from China.
- It’s important for us to return to having a comprehensive manufacturing economy.
- The flags that fly over the Capitol and in front of government facilities and national parks should be made in the United States.
- The law sends a reasonable message that when it comes to products that are critically important to the United States, the manufacturing of them should be done in the United States.
- The bill ought to mean business opportunities for American flag manufacturers.
Read more about Sherrod’s All-American Flag Act 🇺🇸:
- Toledo Blade: Federal government must purchase American flags that are made in the U.S.
- WTOL: Ohio US Sen. Sherrod Brown’s bill requiring American flags be made in the U.S. heads to president’s desk
- Associated Press: American flags should be born in the USA now, too, Congress says
- WTRF: New legislation requires federal agencies to purchase only American-made flags
- The Bryan Times: Flag bill goes to president
- Lima News: U.S. flags now must be 100% American made
- WDTN: New law changes American flag purchasing requirements for federal government
- Cleveland.com: Biden signs Sherrod Brown’s legislation requiring the federal government to buy only U.S.-made American flags
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