[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 130 (Monday, July 26, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CRISIS

  (Mrs. DINGELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. DINGELL. Madam Speaker, I stood here nearly a month ago to 
deliver a very similar message: once-in-a-lifetime storms are becoming 
our reality in Michigan.
  In the last month, southeast Michigan has flooded three times in the 
city of Dearborn, nearly 20,000 homes have been impacted. My 
constituents can't recover from one flood before it worsens and another 
one hits and there is more damaged property, more lost valuables.
  People are angry. People are scared. And they have every right to be. 
That is because we have known the solution to these disasters for a 
while. The time for climate action is now. This starts with investing 
in resilient infrastructure to protect our communities from the impacts 
of climate crisis.
  We need to invest in infrastructure that can withstand natural 
disasters and make it easier on the American people to recover. We 
can't continue to have these floods couched as once-in-a-lifetime, if 
you call them that, when people are dealing with unimaginable damages 
in my city for the third time in 4 weeks.
  We need a strong infrastructure package that takes bold action and 
addresses change head-on.

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