I wore this color today for a reason. Last June I invited you, and I think it is fair to say Congressman Joyce joined me in this, to visit Lake Erie, the 12th-largest freshwater lake in the world and the shallowest of the five Great Lakes. That lake is choking, and it is choking deeply, due to phosphorus and manure runoff.
Kaptur emphasizes the environmental crisis facing Lake Erie due to pollution.
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