[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 159 (Friday, September 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        RECOGNIZING TOMMY CONWAY

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to share my deepest condolences upon 
the passing of United Steelworkers' president, Tommy Conway, who passed 
away this past weekend at 71 years old.
  The steelworkers of the United States, the labor movement, and our 
Nation have lost a true hero who helped to revitalize and reinvest in 
the U.S. steel industry.
  As someone who spent much of my career working to save industrial 
America, including in Ohio and across our country, I can say that there 
was no greater advocate to save this lodestar, vital U.S. industry than 
Tommy Conway.
  Tommy understood to his core what America makes and grows makes and 
grows America and he was absolutely committed to making things in 
America and making sure, as president of the United Steelworkers, that 
he fought every single day to protect workers, make sure they had good 
pay, retirement security, and safety on the job.
  Tommy was dedicated to the idea that all working people should be 
able to live a good middle-class way of life. Something we both 
understood growing up in union households was what unions truly mean to 
workers and families--moving into the middle class.
  Conway will be missed by many but never forgotten, and I hope Tommy's 
longtime partner, Carol, his three sons, and six grandchildren are 
comforted in knowing how much good he has done for so many and what a 
great man Tommy Conway was.

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