Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the America COMPETES Act. With this legislation we have an opportunity to strengthen domestic supply chains, invest in American manufacturing, and to lower costs for families, for small businesses, and seniors. This pandemic has exposed deep weaknesses in our supply chains that have increasingly relied on foreign manufacturing, instead of making goods right here in America with American workers. This bill will help fix our broken supply chains so that we can build more critical components here in America, not overseas in China where government exploits its own people. For Michigan's auto workers, this includes addressing the semiconductor chips shortage, which has shuttered auto plants and forced thousands of auto workers to temporarily be laid off. This bill will invest billions to bring chip manufacturing back to the United States. Also, this legislation includes my legislation to create a new Trade Adjustment Assistance for Communities program, and it will help many older industrial communities that have been negatively impacted by trade communities like Flint, Saginaw, and Bay City. TAA for Communities will address the needs in these places and develop local economic development strategies. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.”