Alan Lowenthal actually said...

I ultimately ended up voting for the bill, against my local labor unions, and it was very painful.

We are advocating here that our nation's ports must be included in any future packages.

I have pressed Congress and the administration to take steps to aid ports like opening up municipal lending facilities to port authorities.

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