"If the Great Lakes were a nation, it would be the third largest economy in the world, with a GDP of more than $6 trillion."
"I think this DC group has really--they are on to something transformational."
"As we look forward toward a Build Back Better agenda, how can our country confront a reckoning with race and poverty without addressing the unfairness of the massive financial obligations placed on co..."
"I just wanted to go back again, and I will follow up with a letter urging the Secretary to think about the CCC."
"Thank God there is leadership--and things are going to change."
"I will just tell you a recent experience I had anticipating Earth Day."
"I said, I don't want sycamore trees. I said, find me trees that don't make such a mess in the city."
"I am a huge supporter of the Urban and Community Forestry Program at the Forest Service..."
"Thank you so much for this hearing again, Madam Chair. You make a difference."
"We are lucky in the GLRI if we get 250 million, sometimes 330 million."
"I wanted to mention that both Congressman Joyce and myself share a fresh water coast in the Great Lakes, and we are told that about 22 million pounds of plastic are dumped into the Great Lakes each ye..."