much of our housing stock in my district is valued at less than $100,000 and requires a lot of repairs to be brought up to code.

we introduced the Small Dollar Mortgage bill to really try to push our Federal Government to play a bigger role.

For me, environmental justice is disability justice, and economic justice is disability justice.

the Federal Government use all levers of power to ensure that taxpayer money to support this industry is used in support of creating and maintaining good union jobs.

The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act...provides 7.5 billion dollars to develop the electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

The future of the auto industry is electric. We know this. Michigan has been leading the way on this front.

Thank you, Chairman Stevens, for inviting me and holding today's important field hearing to examine the electric vehicle workforce needs that industry is facing.

I've always been a car girl. I'm proud of it. Now I'm an EV car girl.

it's critical we're getting the policies right so this transition is swift and supports a strong American-built workforce.

this egregious decision that I reference is one of the reasons why I introduced the Union Autoworkers Job Protection Act.

the No. 1 issue and the only issue that most of them wanted to talk about was training the workforce for the future.

we've got to have far more transparency, and there really has to be--this has to be taken into account.

This cannot be a process where workers are an afterthought, where we just leave it up to the--you know, the decisions made in corporate board rooms.

I want to build on that last point that you were making about what can be done to mitigate the worker displacement.

It needs to be the opposite: more work and better jobs, and something that can be led by our friends at labor.

We cannot discount workers or see them cut them out of the deal.

let me say that again for the people in the back, $6 billion contract to build the next generation vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service to a totally new nonunion plant instead of having UAW members in Wisconsin carry out this lucrative…

So I'm going to build on that. So I'm going to submit questions for the record because I had three more for you and we won't get it, but I don't think most people understand that most people buying EVs right now are for short distances.