Going in a helicopter over this with the epa administrator right after it happened. Stunning. Now. The company has come in and, you know cleaned up most of what was there. We still cant fish. People along the river cant use their property their back yards. This is going to take tens of years to clean up. You can go to the other side of the state where we have in detroit mounds of whats called Petroleum Coke from tar sands that was sitting on the detroit river, now not only blowing into the river, blowing into the school neighborhoods, churches of the southwest side of detroit. Now, thanks to my colleague senator peters whos now with us and i was proud to join with him, that pet cokes not sitting there anymore, but it was pet coke from tar sands that blew into huge airreas of detroit. And now we have madam chair, a real concern in the straits of mackinaw going across our beautiful state from the upper to lower peninsula where we have a very old pipeline. And, again concerns about the fa
And to visit the plants that have been displaced. The titans that run these global transnational corporations, they are operatives and the wall street giants that finance them could care less about workers anywhere or the community in which they live. And frankly, these new bosses of Global Production dont care about democracy or the rule of law either. They pay whatever they want and they can pay off as they see fit. Ive seen workers in making may tag washing machines in monterey, mexico. They used to be made in newton, iowa. Those workers dont make enough to buy the washing machines they make. The poverty rate in newton has dramatically increased in the town that paul may tag built. The quality of those machines has gone down too. Who can be proud of what is happening . I visited the homes of those workers from monterey lived and other maquilla factory zones and seen firsthand their impofferished living standards. I stood at a surreal location in mexico witnessed the jobs outsourced
Anybody to hire veterans. The rate of unemployment for veterans has been higher. I had the chance in rhodesville, michigan, to meet with veterans Vietnam Veterans some months ago. And i was deeply troubled by the high rate of unemployment for those Vietnam Veterans. This country has not done an adequate job in terms of making sure that veterans have a real opportunity to work. That is the tribute that we must provide its more than a tribute its an obligation to those who have served this nation. Thats why this is called the heroes act. Lets not distort it. Lets not lets not undermine what is the purpose of this legislation. Those who have served deserve as our priority any reasonable effort to provide them with the opportunity that they want. They have served, now they want to work. We need to make sure they have that opportunity to work. Its within that spirit that i support this legislation and urge its passage and i yield back the balance of our time. The speaker pro tempore the gen
And i look forward to looking to working with senator cantwell. Our geographic neighbors so to speak with so much shared interests between the states of washington and alaska. We have a lot that we can be working on collaboratively. To i have a very strong collaborative relationship with my colleague from oregon senator wyden, from the committee. I think we set a good tone for this committee, in terms of how we build things and how we work to advance initiatives throughout the process. Having said that, as we embark on their First Business meeting, our markup, i think it is a little unfortunate that we move to markup first, that we did not have the opportunity for the hearing was scheduled yesterday. We had already laid that groundwork, we had invited our agreedupon witnesses, we circulated a background memo that i hope each of you had an opportunity to read and review. It was written by joint staff in preparation for the hearing. We had already gotten testimony from our witnesses, the
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