On the recordSeptember 29, 2022
I thank my colleagues Earl Blumenauer, Adrian Smith, Dan Kildee, and Drew Ferguson for their work on this bill. I especially thank Congresswoman DelBene for her tireless leadership in advocating for this issue and bringing Members together in a bipartisan manner. For our listeners out there, that isn't as rare a thing as one might think. But when you have exceptional leadership, and when you have the grandmother-to-be of an infant on the way, you have a sense of urgency that this Congress and this Nation desperately needs. I can't thank her enough for her leadership on this, as well as my colleagues across the aisle, because we all know that increasing access and lowering costs for importing base powder is especially important, as Congresswoman DelBene described, for WIC families because we know that means lower costs for working families. This is a prime example of what can happen when we all work together for the common good. Nothing could be more important than making sure that Suzan DelBene's future grandchild has appropriate baby formula.
