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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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Transportation, Infrastructure & Corrosion

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Congresswoman Sutton believes that maintaining and improving our infrastructure – roads, mass transit, bridges, water and sewer systems, electrical grid and Internet access – are critical to create jobs, stimulate economic activity in Northeast Ohio and make our commutes easier.

As part of the Make It in America agenda, the Congresswoman has worked to ensure that when U.S. taxpayer dollars are used to build our roads, bridges, water and sewer systems that American-made steel, iron and manufactured goods will be used to do it. She knows that the American people clearly expect that when their taxpayer dollars are used to invest in our nation's infrastructure, that those tax dollars will be used to create jobs right here at home.

Corrosion

Congresswoman Sutton wants to take the rust out of the Rust Belt once and for all. Corrosion – which affects bridges, water and sewer systems, and even military aircraft – does not receive enough attention until it is too late. Taking a forward-thinking approach by addressing corrosion at the onset of a project would extend the life of critical infrastructure, reduce maintenance costs, increase public safety and save taxpayer money.

According the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the costs of corrosion in the U.S. are $400 billion per year. Over the last five years, the Department of Defense has funded more than 140 corrosion projects worth over $100 million. The GAO has certified that over the life of these projects, $5.75 billion will be saved - a savings to investment ratio of more than 50 to 1.

Congresswoman Sutton’s leadership on addressing corrosion led to the establishment of the National Center for Education and Research on Corrosion and Materials Performance at the University of Akron, which includes the nation's first undergraduate degree program in corrosion engineering. The highly-skilled workforce necessary for these cutting-edge jobs will help the center pay for itself dozens of times over, and it will lead the way in developing and producing the cost-cutting materials for this emerging industry.