[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 19, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H239]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              A PHENOMENAL INTERGENERATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to thank President Joe Biden 
and the majority here with some of our Republican friends who passed 
the bipartisan infrastructure legislation not long ago.
  The Biden administration just announced this morning three-quarters 
of a billion dollars of investment in the Great Lakes region--an 
awesome amount--to take care of projects that had been sitting on the 
shelf for over a quarter century, for the modernization of the Soo 
Locks. We could not conduct war without those locks being operational. 
And they have sat around with no investment.
  God bless Joe Biden for his patriotism to this country, and also for 
what is going to happen at Brandon Road Lock, south of Chicago, with 
the barrier that will be built so the Asian carp don't get into the 
entire Great Lakes and eat up all of our native species.
  Three-quarters of a billion dollars in the Great Lakes today; what a 
phenomenal intergenerational announcement.
  Madam Speaker, I thank all the Members who supported that important 
legislation, and I thank Joe Biden, the President of the United States.

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