Should U.S. flags that fly from federal buildings be made entirely in the U.S.A.?
So ask sponsors of the "All-American Flag Act," introduced in response to the $3.6 million in imports of U.S. flags, mostly from China.
The bill’s sponsors used the day before Independence Day to call on the House to pass a Senate-approved bill that would require the federal government to purchase only flags made entirely from domestic content.
We should do all we can to support American manufacturing and job creation, especially when it comes to our most treasured of patriotic symbols — the American flag," said Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat whose state of Ohio is home to U.S. flag makers.
So ask sponsors of the "All-American Flag Act," introduced in response to the $3.6 million in imports of U.S. flags, mostly from China.
The bill’s sponsors used the day before Independence Day to call on the House to pass a Senate-approved bill that would require the federal government to purchase only flags made entirely from domestic content.
We should do all we can to support American manufacturing and job creation, especially when it comes to our most treasured of patriotic symbols — the American flag," said Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat whose state of Ohio is home to U.S. flag makers.
