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On the recordSeptember 13, 2023
I thank my good friend, the leader, for organizing this Special Order hour and especially for his steadfast leadership of the Regional Leadership Council. What I love about Steny is that his whole focus on this is about implementation, but it is also about informing people about all the things that have been done to support the American people. I thank Mr. Hoyer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries for creating and organizing our group, and I am honored to represent my colleagues of Region 9, which includes the States of New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and my home State of Delaware. Our region, like the entire Regional Leadership Council, has been focused on the implementation of the historic legislation passed in the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris when Democrats put people over politics and delivered transformational change. Leaders like Representative Jennifer McClellan in Virginia's Fourth Congressional District have delivered results for her constituents, funding to reconnect Richmond's historic Jackson Ward neighborhood that was split in half during the construction of the interstate highway system. This funding was delivered through the bipartisan infrastructure law and is reconnecting communities.…
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Lisa Blunt Rochester
Democratic · Delaware
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Sep 13, 2023

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