On the recordOctober 19, 2021
I rise this evening to call attention to the needs of our Great Lakes region, including communities I represent like Lorain, Ohio, which my colleagues on the Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth visited yesterday afternoon on a bipartisan basis. During the hearing, we heard from union members, the business community, community leaders, and local officials about how decades of underinvestment and outsourcing have devastated our region; 10,000 steel jobs gone just in that industry. As we advance our Build Back Better agenda, it is vital we deliver robust resources and support to these communities, ones that too often have been left behind. These historic investments in infrastructure and good-paying jobs must reach every corner of our Nation, especially those where middle- class workers and their families have been denied full participation in the American Dream. Let's make sure that these communities and those in the Great Lakes receive their fair share and are set upon a path for a more prosperous tomorrow. ____________________
