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Article: ASSEMBLY MEMBERS ALBANO, MILAM, WAGNER TOUT 'MADE IN USA' FLAG BILL
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 12, 2009
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TRENTON, N.J., July 2 -- The New Jersey Assembly's Democrats issued the following news release:
With Independence Day weekend's arrival, Assembly members Nelson Albano, Connie Wagner and Matt Milam today noted legislation they've sponsored would require the state to buy only United States and New Jersey flags manufactured in the United States.
"It makes absolutely no sense to allow even one dime of the public's money to be spent on an American flag made anywhere but in America," said Albano (D-Cumberland /Atlantic/Cape May). "It is bad enough that our state and nation's manufacturing bases have largely evaporated as jobs were shipped elsewhere. Buying the most-recognized symbol of our ...