[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 12, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H3379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH UNITED STEELWORKERS

  (Mr. MRVAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MRVAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in solidarity with the 
hardworking men and women of the United Steelworkers who have been 
locked out of their jobs for almost 2 months at the British Petroleum 
facility in Whiting, Indiana.
  Since day one under the administration's Project 2025, we have seen 
attacks against organized labor, the gutting of the Department of 
Labor, and a National Labor Relations Board that only sides with 
corporate interests.
  At the same time, an estimated $8 billion hydrogen project at the 
same British Petroleum facility was canceled after the administration 
demanded that the tax credits be removed in the Republican 
reconciliation bill to offset tax cuts for the corporations and the 
most wealthy.
  This project would have created new energy, put these union men and 
women on the job today, creating new economic activity and jobs for a 
generation. Instead, they are locked out.
  Union workers also undergo specialized training to operate in this 
high-risk environment at a refinery. Today, the replacement workers not 
only put their lives at risk but everyone in my community.
  I continue to call on British Petroleum to lift the lockout, to 
realize negotiation is not accepting the terms that created the 
lockout, and be able to return to good-faith negotiations and put 
skilled workers back on the job before a preventable tragedy occurs 
simply due to corporate greed.

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