Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank my friend from Colorado, Senator Udall, for speaking on this important issue, and for his constant advocacy of the wind production tax credit. We have entrepreneurs right now in Michigan and all across the country who are working hard to invent our clean energy future. I am thinking of companies like Ventower in Monroe, that just opened their 115,000-square-foot wind turbine tower manufacturing facility last year. They have hired 150 people to build those huge wind towers that you see along the highway. These are good-paying jobs of the future. Energetx Composites is another company in Michigan that used to manufacture luxury yachts. They took their experience with light-weight materials and now they are producing the blades for the wind turbines, and they have also hired workers in Michigan. Astraeus Wind and Dowding Industries are doing the casting work and manufacturing the hubs that allow those blades to turn and produce energy. These are huge items--some as big as a house--and they need people to build them, and ship them, and that means jobs of the future in Michigan. It also means a future that we can hand down with pride to our children and our grandchildren. It is a future with a strong middle class. It is a future where the American dream is alive and well. We have been through tough times in Michigan, but wind power has been a bright spot. This year, we more than doubled our wind capacity in Michigan.…”