Marcy Kaptur

But just pay attention to the Great Lakes. Look at the number of enlistments that come from our region.

I am very concerned about our military and the nutritional value of food served to our military personnel.

I just ask you to please don't forget the defense industrial base of the country.

What a great example each of you are to the young people aspiring in our country.

What shocked me with this war in Ukraine is to look at these young people as I go out to the schools.

I think we could do better.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for your leadership and that of my Ohio colleague, David Joyce.

How consciously do we direct the States to make sure to be equitable in the way that those dollars are distributed

I don't like the idea that regions like mine may be left behind to the larger, wealthier metropolitan areas.

I think artists are left brain people and marketers are right brain people, and I think we have a little trouble getting the arts elevated.

I am wondering, especially given the war in Ukraine and the focus of our country in the world on that, how your Agency might use funding from the budget request to help support the archival, a collection of stories documents and other…

We can keep doing better at that in our region.

I think it would be exciting, and I think we are going to miss an opportunity if we don't do this right with the infrastructure bill.

So we have a lot of historical gaps here, and I think we need to fill them.

I would really welcome your thoughts on that, and I have a hunch Congressman Joyce might be equally interested.

I think those are all important stories that we need to be able to tell in a much more comprehensive manner.

I wanted to go back to the Director and ask if one wanted to work with the Department of the Interior as a result of the infrastructure bill...

They were completely dedicated to the National Park Service and to the assets of the Department of the Interior.

I have often thought that that could be just a tremendous place to introduce environmentally clean technologies that are either working or in the development stages.

We know that electric vehicles are the future, but they are not going to be readily available for everyone tomorrow.

The president has said that we have to have a whole-of-government approach.

We have to care about the people and where they work, and maybe EPA could help us be a voice there.

The lead pipe removal became a sign of hope for that area.

I feel a responsibility, and I think with your leadership, maybe for the first time in modern history we can do something that has been left out of America's history books.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you so very much, and so glad you chair this subcommittee.