[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 183 (Tuesday, October 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        CALLING ATTENTION TO THE NEEDS OF THE GREAT LAKES REGION

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, 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.

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