Marcy Kaptur

I support the President's decision. 20 years after September 11, 2001, it is time for the Afghan people to take ownership of their own country's future.

Yet before our eyes, they are succumbing to an ecological disaster of epic proportions, and an economy that struggles to reinvent itself.

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 would like to propose creating attention to the Great Lakes region, and I look forward in the future to presenting the committee with two proposals, one to augment the authorities of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development…

I want to applaud your committee for including my floor amendments last year expressing concern for proposed cuts to long-distance Amtrak routes.

We are lucky in the GLRI if we get 250 million, sometimes 330 million.

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 communities like Cleveland, like Toledo…

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 said, I don't want sycamore trees. I said, find me trees that don't make such a mess in the city.

I will just tell you a recent experience I had anticipating Earth Day.

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.

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 year, half of which enters Lake Michigan…

I would like to thank Congressman and Ranking Member Simpson for his steadfast engagement.

We are looking very seriously at interim storage of spent nuclear waste.

I would like to elevate this as an area of heightened inquiry for the country.

We simply can't let this suffering go on unaddressed. And if we can't do better in our lifetime, shame on us.

I invite them to take a look at this committee hearing this morning.

I really do think it is worth the effort.

Some of this is going to be done by public financing. Some is going to be done by private financing.

Yes. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Shame on them. We have tens of billions of dollars of backlog Corps projects all over the country.

Thank you, Madam Chair.