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    Ohio's 13th Congressional District truly is a great place to live, raise a family and do business. Congresswoman Sutton has lived most of her life in and around the communities that make up much of the district, and she is proud to represent the people and places she knows and loves so much.

    Originally nicknamed the “Turnpike District”, the 13th Congressional District’s unique shape traces across the shoreline of Lake Erie in Lorain County, captures the “Emerald Necklace” of the Cleveland MetroParks and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and extends south to include the Portage Lakes State Park in Summit County. The 13th Congressional District is also home to institutions of higher learning such as Lorain County Community College and The University of Akron.

    The 13th Congressional District stretches across four of Northeast Ohio’s most populous counties, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Medina, and Summit, and it includes all or some of over thirty communities.


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Rep. Sutton Votes to Require Congress and Department of Homeland Security to Buy American

Sep 15, 2010

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) voted on legislation to require Congress to Buy American when buying products for use by the House and Senate, and for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to buy American clothing, tents and other textile products to be used by DHS. Additionally, all products bearing a Congressional seal must be "Made in America."

"Americans expect the federal government to Buy American - to use their tax dollars to support American manufacturing and American workers," said Rep. Sutton. "These two bills are a common-sense part of the Make It in America agenda, because taxpayer money ought to be invested back into our economy to create jobs for hard-working Americans and to get our factories humming again."

The Congressional Made in America Promise Act Requires Congress to buy goods and services made by American workers for the first time since "Buy American" rules were instituted for federal agencies under President Roosevelt in 1933, including tighter Buy American requirements for items with the seal of Congress, the House or Senate.

The DHS legislation, the Berry Amendment Extension Act, bars the DHS from buying clothing, tents and other products that are not "grown, reprocessed, reused or produced" in America. For the last 60 years, the Berry Amendment has served our nation well requiring the Defense Department and the Coast Guard to buy a range of domestically produced or grown items with 100% U.S. content, and today we are voting to cover the DHS.


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