[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 149 (Thursday, September 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   RECOGNIZING MICHIGAN VETERAN HOMES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Michigan (Mrs. McClain) for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. McCLAIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Michigan 
Veteran Homes in my district in Chesterfield.
  I was fortunate enough to recently visit this facility and spend time 
learning from the great folks caring for so many of Michigan's heroes. 
This great facility provides veterans with top-level care, from 
physical rehabilitation programs, memory stimulation, and all the way 
up to full-term care.
  The Chesterfield staff honorably serves our veterans with the utmost 
dignity, which is something veterans deserve. I am so proud to have an 
organization like this in Michigan's Ninth District, and I am 
especially proud of the outstanding work Michigan Veteran Homes in 
Chesterfield does every single day.


             President Biden is Negotiating with Terrorists

  Mrs. McCLAIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in anger. I am angry that 
President Biden is quite literally negotiating with terrorists and 
plans to release to Iran $6 billion in frozen assets.
  Do you know what negotiating with terrorists leads to? I will share 
with you what that leads to: more Americans being kidnapped for ransom. 
Connect the dots, people. It is not that tough.
  This is an absolute embarrassment to our country and a complete and 
utter failure of Biden's foreign policy yet again. Make no mistake 
about it. The $6 billion that Biden is so casually handing over to 
Tehran, what will it be used for? It will be used to fund State-
sponsored terrorism.
  Let us not forget what happened on 9/11. This is on the heels of 9/
11. We are incentivizing terrorism by giving our enemies $6 billion. We 
can't be this asleep at the wheel; but he is. This will destabilize the 
Middle East and put our allies at grave risk.
  Let me be clear. This is not diplomacy or statesmanship. This is 
signing a deal with the devil.

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  Mr. Speaker, I rise today because my home State of Michigan and our 
entire country is at a crossroads.
  This coming Friday, the United Auto Workers are likely going to 
strike. Nearly 150,000 will stop working, leaving General Motors, 
Stellantis, and Ford without anyone to build the cars that drive our 
economy forward.
  If you ask President Biden, he will say it is no big deal and the 
strike is not going to happen. Well, let me tell you, Mr. President: 
Guess again. The strike is real, and its dawn is coming tomorrow.
  While I don't always agree with Big Labor and their strategies, I can 
see why they are angry. They have watched as their companies have sold 
out to the radical Green New Deal agenda and have placed EVs ahead of 
their employees. Yes, I want to say that. These companies have placed 
EVs ahead of their employees.
  For those that don't know, it is simple. EVs take less parts. Less 
parts means less workers. Less workers hurt our economy.
  Make no mistake about it. This is happening because of Joe Biden's EV 
mandates and his reckless agenda to rid the world of reliable engines. 
It is not a sustainable plan, but Biden seems not to care.
  Some automakers are just going along to get along with Biden because 
even when their profits decrease due to EVs, they have doubled down on 
their plan at the expense of the men and women who build our cars.
  I want to be clear about something. I am not against EVs, but I am 
against mandates and against abandoning things that actually work.
  Gas-powered engines work, and they work well. EVs barely work, and 
they are unreliable, which is something Secretary Granholm knows very 
well.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President.

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