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1. “It is important to play the solution game for the United States of America. As somebody who served in a bipartisan way--yes, I was an appointee of the administration of the two-term President Barack Obama. I served in his first term on the U.S. auto rescue, the initiative responsible for saving General Motors and Chrysler and hundreds of thousands of Michigan jobs and very clearly saved millions of jobs across this great Nation. It was really something else. I mean, they were saying don't let them liquidate. We didn't let them liquidate. We went forward, and we did the right thing.”

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2. “The Home Accessibility Tax Credit Act is a great bill, and I am proud to have Senator Angus King as my companion on this bill. It is a refundable tax credit to help seniors and Americans with disabilities, including our veterans, retrofit their homes to meet their accessibility needs. In the United States of America, Mr. Speaker, we want everyone to succeed. We want everyone who can work to have access to a good job. In 2023, Detroit reached its highest level of jobs in over 50 years, Mr. Speaker. People were moving into the city of Detroit. It was really something else to see that happen. That is not to ignore the frustration and the pain of high costs. I am not here and not standing here, in part because the rules don't allow it, but it is appropriate to not play the blame game.”

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3. “Speaker, is that if we cancel the credits, if we squeeze out the money, the work will stop. Why would we hand that gift to our competitor? I say this from this Chamber as one vote and one voice to just continue to push for sound and reasoned industrial policy. Not everything needs to be a reaction to who is in charge. Mr. Speaker, today, I have put forward an announcement from my office about bills to lower costs, reintroducing four bills that I wrote last term in the Congress: the Healthy Affordable Housing Act that I have reintroduced with my colleague Congressman Ritchie Torres; the Fix Moldy Housing Act; the First Time Homeowner Savings Plan Act; and the Home Accessibility Tax Credit Act. These are all bills I just introduced today. Some of them had Republicans on them last term.”

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4. “It is an insult to their work. It is an insult to their labor. Then, of course, Mr. Speaker, we have another concern of our laborers, which is an enterprise that I had mentioned, the largest polysilicon manufacturer in the country, actually the only one, and one of three in the world. It is this very remarkable enterprise called Hemlock. They received some tax credits from industrial policy legislation that we passed in the 117th session of the Congress. This is so very essential to our country and our world's manufacturing prowess. I really, Mr. Speaker, do not want to go overseas for that polysilicon. I want to see the work of polysilicon manufacturing in the United States of America expand and grow. I would like to see it expand and grow. What my friends at the Laborers' Union shared with me, Mr.”

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5. “Again, I reference the article here: ``A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled.'' We just read about another Intel factory in Ohio. I met with these remarkable people at the Laborers' International Union this morning, or just as it was heading into afternoon time, rather. I met with the Laborers' International Union, and the members from Michigan who hail from all over the State were sharing with me some of their concerns. They were saying to me, Mr. Speaker, that there are projects that are going to shutter. There is a bridge in Bay City that has been demolished and has had concrete set. We have a good Congresswoman from Bay City who is aware of that project, of course. They are saying if the dollars get canceled, we are not going to have a bridge. They are not going to be able to complete it.”

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6. “It was a very bipartisan initiative, and it was money that we put out into the marketplace to say we will have chip manufacturing in the United States of America. It was a sizable amount of taxpayer dollars to say that we would have chip manufacturing, but what was even more incredible, Mr. Speaker, is that, yes, it was sizable dollars, but it was quadruple matched by the private sector, a public-private partnership. The initiative actually paid for itself four times over by the conclusion of the previous President's term. I think we need a very comprehensive industrial policy that matches the moment of time that we are in, Mr. Speaker. Of course, strategic tariffs that the previous President and the President before did have helped, but we are feeling the squeeze in Michigan, and it is news unfolding before our eyes.”

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7. “I have these relationships in the aluminum sector, and they are telling me that they have these smelters that American companies have in Canada that are making the aluminum. I don't know if you have ever seen aluminum get made, but it is really like baking a cake, and steel and all of that. The steel, oh, my gosh, when I was working for the President in 2009 and '10, we spent time with the Steelworkers and the steelmaking process. These smelters are $6 billion. It confuses me how we are going to get a $6 billion smelter in the United States of America. Maybe we should do that. It would be nice to do, but where are you going to get the $6 billion? You know, these Wall Street people are all upset about the market right now. We had a really great industrial policy in '22, a bill I helped author, the CHIPS and Science Act, Mr. Speaker.”

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8. “We have a lot of shared memberships with the union. Remember, it is an international union, so the UAW has members in Canada. The trades have members in Canada, including the Steelworkers, who are very important to all of this as well and who know very much what good tariff policy could mean for them. I support them in that, but we don't need to be bullying Canada to become an annexed State. We need to make sure that we have strengthened security and good trade. When we hear, Mr. Speaker, oh, my goodness gracious, about blanket tariffs on our neighbors from the north, all aluminum imports face a 25 percent tariff, well, that is coming from Canada. I am the co-chair of the Aluminum Caucus, Mr. Speaker. It is a bipartisan caucus.”

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9. “It's Been Tried Before,'' by Joseph Thorndike. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining.”

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10. “It is really exciting to geek out with these makers and innovators. It really is an amazing thing to go to see this stuff in action. They are selling all over the world, and they are employing people in Michigan and all over our country. It is a really a delightful thing. It is important to our economy. We want to keep doing that, and we want to sell our nameplates. Jeep is a fantastic brand. I am not pushing, and I am not trying to sell cars on the House floor. I am just mentioning that we are not seeing a lot of them overseas, Mr. Speaker. When we have this approach, what was called liberation day, and we will see what unfolds from it, where we have been grappling and frustrated and watching as Michiganders is this tariff policy on Canada. I have this other article here that someone sent me: ``Using Tariffs to Make Canada a State?”

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11. “{time} 1730 I had the privilege as a Member of Congress last term to go to a NATO meeting. I was invited to a NATO meeting over in Portugal. It was very exciting to be with a bipartisan delegation of Members of Congress for a few days. It was during a recess period. I thought it was worthwhile to do it. I was actually shocked that there were not American cars in Portugal. I thought, my goodness gracious, where are your Fords? Where are your General Motors? Where are your Chevys? Anything? My goodness gracious, we boast and love making vehicles in Michigan and selling to the world. I do this program called Manufacturing Monday. There are hundreds of parts, components, that get made in any car. I visited hundreds of manufacturers, Mr. Speaker, and I mean, really, I go onto their factory floors. It is not a showboat thing. It is a geek-out.”

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12. “That is what the printout says. He writes a newsletter on Understanding America. Mr. Cass says: Stop freaking out. Tariffs can still work. I guess that is the debate that we are in. What I don't like, though, Mr. Speaker, was the tariff proposal that was so aggressive and coming down at us so fast and hard. I value so much my relationship and the leadership of Shawn Fain at the UAW, the United Auto Workers union. I was looking at this and saying: Maybe we can finally start to get our fair share. Maybe we can have a little reciprocity. Maybe the industrial world order that we brought together in 1945 and beyond is a time that we, of course, need to honor, recognize, and appreciate, but for 2025, we do need to look at who is buying American cars and how we are setting the rules of the road.”

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13. “Are we supposed to call the Chinese Communist Party and ask them to go and get these batteries and start making these batteries? Are we just not going to have batteries made in the United States of America? Why would it be acceptable to have battery plants shutter in the United States of America? This isn't an exercise of ego or id or personhood. This is about persons' lives. This is about how we manufacture and produce in the United States of America. I don't like reading that factories are being closed, Mr. Speaker. I don't like reading another headline written by Patricia Cohen on April 3 that says that the trade war that we are in risks forfeiting America's economic primacy. Now, this is just one article. There is another one by Oren Cass. He is the chief economist at American Compass. I guess that is a conservative think tank.”

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14. “Speaker, it was really quite remarkable because GM left the stock market. They did a new initial public offering, an IPO. It got back on the stock market. They repaid the government. The government actually made some money off of the investment that they made in the companies. We had an old company. We had a brownfield initiative for some of the stuff that was going by the wayside. Of course, my friends at the UAW reminded me that too many plants have shuttered this century. In the year 2025, when you look at the last 25 years, Mr. Speaker, too many plants have shuttered. It is really quite outrageous, Mr. Speaker, to hold up this article from The Detroit News that was written on April 4 of this year, that a stunning number of battery factories are being canceled. Why are factories being canceled in the year 2025, Mr. Speaker?”

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15. “I am nearly convinced, Mr. Speaker, that as he heard my thick Midwestern accent, he decided to bring me on as his Chief of Staff needing someone from Michigan who didn't have ethical conflicts with a managed industrial bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler. We didn't hire anyone in the auto industry. We didn't want to have conflicts. We brought together this amazing team. It didn't matter who voted for what, we just got the best talent in and put forward an initiative, an industrial initiative, the likes that this Nation had never seen. Yes, Mr. Speaker, it was money, the taxpayer money out of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. GM, General Motors, left the stock market. I reflected on the 15-year anniversary of this auto rescue last year in this Chamber during another one of these addresses. Mr.”

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16. “However, the country pre-ACA, Affordable Care Act, ran into some severe challenges. Ford had gotten its loan before the recession hit, and General Motors and Chrysler hadn't done that. They were tragically and frighteningly staring bankruptcy in the face. So, Mr. Speaker, what I was able to do was, being the passionate 20-something-year-old I was for my State grappling with this Presidential election that I was a part of and saw go to victory, I thought: Should I go back to Michigan or should I maybe work in a car dealership or something? It was not my degree, but I thought maybe I could help. Then I heard they were going to do an auto initiative, an auto rescue. So I put up my hand to work on that auto rescue. By fate and chance I met a man named Steve Rattner in the halls of President Barack Obama's transition office.”

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17. “They had this whole Wall Street endeavor that the Bush administration alongside the House of Representatives had to engage in. There was this hanging issue around our auto industry and the fact that the capital markets and the lack of sound healthcare policy in this Nation, our companies were shouldering every burden, not burden, but responsibility of healthcare. People need healthcare, Mr. Speaker, we know that. Aging is real. I talk to my dad about it. I said: Dad, let's do the doctor checklist. He has got hearing, he has got throat, and he has got mobility, his physical mobility, and on and on and on. His mental faculties are incredible, yea for that, but there is a need for medical attention as people get older, and the UAW rightfully protects their retirees. We are proud of what they are able to do for the retirees.”

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18. “Speaker, I know we don't hail from the same party. Of course, you are sitting in the Speaker's chair. What was so remarkable about the start of the Obama Administration and the Treasury Department right there on East Executive Avenue is that it is basically a part of the White House campus. The Obama administration officials came in and were met by Bush administration officials. We tangoed. We worked together. We danced together on behalf of a nation in an economic recession. We called it a GR, capital G capital R, Great Recession this Nation was in. A lot of unbelievable and painful things were happening, of course, Mr. Speaker. First of all, the housing industry was going kaput to say it lightly. There was a massive foreclosure crisis. There was a run on banks like in equity firms like Lehman Brothers.”

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19. “These are really unbelievable enterprises that put so much into making door panels, making interiors, and making sure that we have got the full sweep of mobility opportunities from, of course, the engines, and we have got companies like Allison Transmission that is working on electric engines. They are still, of course, doing the internal combustion engine, Mr. Speaker. We have original equipment manufacturers who have been aggressive in ushering in their vision of a mobility future. It is no surprise for me to share in this House Chamber what we have heard from the chief executive officer of General Motors, Mary Barra, that 6 years ago she wanted to see a fully zero emission General Motors. I was surprised to hear the vision in some respects but also I wanted to recognize that she had a vision.”

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20. “Speaker, I came to Congress by way of an advanced manufacturing research lab, and I was working with a lot of incredible small manufacturers, mid-size manufacturers, and even large-scale manufacturers in this space that the acronym IIoT captures, Industrial Internet of Things. In short and simply, it is the digitization of our manufacturing process. Now a lot of people are calling it artificial intelligence, how we design, produce, manufacture, and ship capital-intensive, large-scale equipment made of steel. Now, I happen to know enough about the auto industry and how complex and interconnected it is that in Michigan we have this rich, unbelievable concentration of suppliers. We call them suppliers.”

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21. “Of course, they remembered when they landed on the Moon. My father remembers it, and my mother does too, somewhat, that we sent people to the Moon. My contribution to that committee hearing, Mr. Speaker, was reflecting on that history is so deeply important, but articulating the moonshot of the next 50 years remains our imperative. Of course, being the good Representative I am of the State of Michigan, I believed that the moonshot of the next 50 years, and I still do, is hailing from the place that I call home, the advancements in mobility, where are our auto industry is innovating, growing, and moving towards. Now, Mr.”

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22. “Of course, we have a very strong, vibrant, and incredible UAW, United Auto Workers union. At the end of the 1900s it was very large in number, very powerful, and very right to stand up for hardworking men and women like my grandfather. So as we think about the 20th century and we look at where we are now, the quarter 21st century, I say this so much it might drive some people crazy, but it is important to realize where we are standing and what moment we are in because it is the mid-2020s. It is a really exciting and inspiring time. I remember getting into Congress in the year 2019, and, of course, I was on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee. We were recognizing in a committee hearing the 50-year anniversary of the Moon landing. Some of my colleagues were alive and remembered when we landed on the Moon.”

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23. “Some people know about this movie ``Forest Gump.'' It kind of captures in a lot of beautiful ways this plight of the 20th century America. Now, Mr. Speaker, I am a millennial. I was born in 1983, not 40 years after the conclusion of World War II but almost. Of course, the millennials, as we were closing out the 1900s, really felt as though America was at the top of the world. We were unstoppable. We invented the internet. Our auto industry was booming. The sport utility vehicle, Oakland County, Michigan, being really one of the most wealthy, if not the wealthiest county in America, and that is to say that our auto industry really had continued into the late 1900s to propel the economic engine of this Nation. It is a thing of beauty because it wasn't the haves and have-nots. People were making money, not just the executives.”

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24. “These are unbelievable and historic tales of bravery that we should continue to share for a very, very long time to come. {time} 1715 Of course, this period of time was also met with some social change, progress, and pushing. Not all the Rosies went back to the home. My mother's aunt, my great-aunt Ada, was in Cleveland. I guess you could say she was a Rosie, Mr. Speaker. She was in a factory. She was tough. She never married. She worked so hard, and they kept her on in that factory after the war ended. I really believe, Mr. Speaker, that this is a history that was shared and has been shared, not my family's history, but, of course, for our Nation, it has been shared in so many brilliant and beautiful ways.”

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25. “The real threat of tyranny and some, rightfully--and I join in this--say evil was taking place. America helped end a world war in Asia and in Europe. That war gave us the word ``Holocaust,'' the murder of over 6 million Jews whose names we can't in days even share because it is that many names. My father grew up in this post-World War II industrial world order that was being led by the United States of America. So many remarkable things came about within our own country and around the world from American leadership. Mr. Speaker, think about what we were able to do with the auto industry, that arsenal of democracy, that engine of our military might, the Rosies who filled in because the men were away, fighting and serving in battle.”

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26. “I thought it would be neat to have him see me give an address for this length of time by watching in the gallery. Of course, he can always watch on C-SPAN; but I thought it would be nice to have him watch in the gallery. I thought it would be nice to share a little bit about his life and his journey. I mentioned his father who worked for the Fords. That is how they call it back home. The Fords is a family business. My father was born January 3, 1945. It would be interesting to look at what session of Congress was getting sworn in then during such a different time in this Nation's history. Yet it is history, and it is air that my father was breathing even as an infant. It was America at the beginning of 1945, when a war was still being waged around this world.”

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27. “He was a UAW member and raised three children and had a big family. He made a good life and got a good wage and moved to a bigger house in Warren. Mr. Speaker, why I had booked the Special Order Hour last week was because my father was visiting. My father, Jim Stevens, James R. Stevens, of Shelby Township, he now resides in Shelby Township. He has always been a hybrid Macomb, Wayne, and Oakland Counties man. My father, Jim Stevens, was visiting. It was the first time he had visited Washington since I was sworn in, in 2019. We had talked about this trip for a long time. I wanted my dad to come and be a part of Congress. He got here on Tuesday; and then, boom, the votes were closed for the week. They ended votes. Dad didn't get to come to the committee hearings or watch the floor.”

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28. “Of course, it has been somewhat jaw-dropping to see the frontward leading of this Nation by executive order. This is not to break the rules of House and pass insult. It is just a reflection because, of course, all of these reciprocal tariffs were announced. Mr. Speaker, I am just pulling up my note on these reciprocal tariffs because it was an executive office announcement to do reciprocal tariffs. On April 2, a 25 percent tariff on all auto imports went into effect. Of course, I hail from Michigan. I am well-versed, alongside Mrs. Dingell, in the functionality and the drivers of our American auto industry. That largely comes from the fact that I was born in Metro Detroit, and I grew up around the car industry. My grandfather came to Michigan by way of Buffalo to work in a Ford plant.”

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29. “I thought it was responsible to continue to encourage and support our educators, the great educators, the great Michigan Education Association, the AFT, the American Federation of Teachers. These are incredible unions that protect their members and want to make sure they are getting, at the very least, fair pay, raises, pensions, and the like because, gosh knows, it is not easy to be a teacher. It is certainly easier to be a teacher when you are safe from a deadly and lethal virus that killed a million Americans. Mr.”

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30. “I know we don't like to dwell on this pandemic period, but I share that because we reintroduced that resolution early into the 117th Congress. I know we don't--well, maybe we do. Maybe we don't want to dwell on some of the actions that occurred in the early days of the 117th Congress. There was an attempt to certify the election that is usually pretty standard. We saw that happen this term. It was, again, pretty standard. On that day, January 6--I know people hear that day a lot--it was not so standard. It was kind of frenzied to say the least. It was very divisive for this Nation. It was very divisive for this Chamber. I think it is fair to say that people are still not over it, and we need to be honest about that. Of course, we have taken thousands of votes since then.”

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31. “A colleague, of course, through the great tradition of our Michigan delegation, a gentleman by the name of Congressman Walberg, a longtime serving Member of this institution and now the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee that I sit on, he and I had been working on a resolution together. We had actually introduced it in the 116th Congress at the very end of the session. With the introduction of this resolution, we said to ourselves and to the Nation that we wanted the American people to get vaccinated. We also really wanted to make sure that our teachers could get vaccinated because people, Mr. Speaker, wanted to get their kids back in the classroom. They wanted to get them back in the classroom safely and soundly.”

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32. “Of course, we recognize that it can feel right now in this moment frustrating for people, for Members, for the passions that so many have if you are not in the governing seat of authority. Of course, I remember that quite well in the 117th session of Congress. If it is okay, Mr. Speaker, to recognize what the makeup of that session was, we had a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate, and a Democratic President. Of course, we had a country in the early days of 2021 that was still reeling from the effects and the implications of a pandemic that wasn't yet over. In fact, people, if we recall correctly, Mr. Speaker, were just beginning to take that vaccine. We were just beginning to push for people to get vaccinated, not forced. I don't think people want to be forced to do anything, but we wanted to put an end to the pandemic.”

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33. “They look up at a Capitol that inspires them, that moves them, and that brings together our democracy. Next year, we will celebrate 250 years of America's very existence as a Nation. It is really quite something. In some ways it seems like a long time, and it also seems like a short time. We know we are still writing America's story. We know that we don't engage in politics on the House floor such as campaigning. I would like to make an ethical reflection about our politics which is that at some point an election is had. An election is had. An election happens, and we have to govern. We are governing. We have to govern. We are always thinking about the last election and then the next election. We also have to think about governing. We have to look at it responsibly and reasonably.”

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34. “I have shared it back in my district and with friends and in memory of both Johns, both legends, both titans of the 20th century. I have shared it with our Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries in recognition of the moments of passing the torch that we find ourselves in, in American Government and as we push for American change. It was really something else that Mr. Lewis and I had that exchange. It caught me by surprise. Sharing it right now is incredibly humbling, and I appreciate and am grateful for the time to be able to do so, Mr. Speaker, on this House floor. We know that we are a Nation of great passion, of great debate, and of people who come from all over to pay witness to our lawmaking. People come from all over to get their ideas and their thoughts across.”

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35. “I used that time to share my reflections about Mr. Dingell, and it was so very humbling. It was never anything I expected to do in my second month in this Chamber, but I did it. The very next day, a sacred and incredible man, Mr. John Lewis, came up to me on the House floor. It is very crowded on the House floor, Mr. Speaker. You notice this when we are voting. It is 435 people packed here on the House floor. There is staff. It is sometimes hard to move around. You have to get your vote in, Mr. Speaker. You can't get too entranced in the conversation, or you miss a vote. Mr. Lewis came up to me, and he tapped me on the shoulder. He said to me that he heard my words about his friend, John Dingell, and that he appreciated them. I have shared that story on a few occasions but not necessarily publicly.”

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36. “Dingell on an early February day. Mr. Speaker, it was really quite surreal to be in this very Chamber in my first couple of weeks, in this Congress and in the House of Representatives, paying tribute not only to a Michigan legend but an American legend. {time} 1700 We recognized Mr. Dingell in so many ways. We recognized Mr. Dingell in speeches on the House floor from the Democratic leadership under Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Hoyer. If we remember him, even Mr. McCarthy gave some nice words for Mr. Dingell. I was so surprised that a Member of the opposing party would have such kind and inspirational things to say about the former dean of the House of Representatives, 59 long years. Of course, Mr. Kildee booked one of these hours with his colleagues from Michigan to recognize Mr. Dingell. We each got some time to do so as Members.”

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37. “In fact, I will never forget coming to Congress in 2019 in the 116th session of Congress. It was my first term. I got sworn in on January 3, as we do. Mr. Speaker, I said to my good colleague, Congresswoman Dingell: I would very much like to sit down with your husband because I knew there was a tradition where he would sit down with all new Members. Of course, I wasn't just asking personally. I was asking because we had four new Members of Congress from Michigan: Mr. Levin, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Slotkin, and myself. I thought it would be nice for all of us to maybe meet with the Dingells. It was winter, and we knew Mr. Dingell's health was failing or shaky. It started to fail, and we were supporting Mrs. Dingell as a delegation. Dan Kildee of Flint was our dean then, and we rallied to show our love and our support. Tragically, we lost Mr.”

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38. “They said in 1913, we would have 435 Members, and we haven't added new Members to the body since. I am not addressing you, Mr. Speaker, to propose controversy, but I am here to speak on behalf of the people of Michigan, who deserve fair and equal representation for the taxpayer dollars that they provide to the Nation's Treasury. When you look at the largest freshwater basins of our Great Lakes, when you look at the arsenal of democracy, when you see our incredible trade unions from Saginaw up to Iron Mountain working and making and delivering--the only polysilicon manufacturing in the Nation exists in Michigan, in a place called Hemlock by a company called Hemlock--you want to make sure that Michigan has its fair and equal representation. However, Mr.”

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39. “We all paid witness to the incredible history that a Senator from New Jersey gave to this country by breaking the largest filibuster on record. Senator Cory Booker spoke for over 25 hours in the Senate Chamber on behalf of the voices of this Nation who have questions. Of course, we know there are 435 Members in the House Chamber, with each of us representing about 800,000 people. My colleagues from Rhode Island represent just shy of half a million people. In Michigan, I represent just about 800,000 people. We are the tenth largest State in the Union, with 13 House Members and 2 Senators here to move the will of our Nation and to pass the Nation's laws. It is an interesting thing to do so when the size of the institution is remaining as it has been described somewhat by laws.”

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40. “Of course, I am doing so on behalf of my incredible constituents in southeast Michigan, but also for all the residents of Michigan and this great Nation for, you see, the exercise of our democracy is ensconced and inscribed here in our House Chamber and on our House floor. We use both our voice and our vote to move our Nation forward. As you so declared, Mr. Speaker, I am, indeed, in the minority party, and so to gather time on the House floor is sometimes a struggle. To gather time in a committee is sometimes a struggle. You push for your 1 minute, your 5 minutes, your maybe 15 minutes if you get it. Well, today I asked for an hour. I asked for an hour because last week we had an hour booked and, of course, the House adjourned early.”

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41. “Mr. Speaker, it is a profound and humbling honor, as always, to address the Congress, the House of Representatives here in our Nation's Capitol.”

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42. “I urge everybody in this data-driven, AI, exciting world that the United States is leading, and encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to say, yes, we want this bill, H.R. 730, to move forward. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”

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43. “Equity, which is enshrined in our very Constitution, is something that all equal Members of this Chamber swore an oath to uphold. I will remind people of the rights and the tenets of Article I in our Constitution. Dr. Iyengar says that she is horrified by the cuts to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a woman in STEM. Frankly, as the leader of the Women in STEM Caucus, I founded this bipartisan caucus with four Members of this Chamber, two Republicans and two Democrats. It is Women's History Month, and we would like to do some things for women in STEM to meet the workforce challenges and needs of this great Nation. Of course, I cannot, at this present time, tragically, get a Republican Member of Congress to join the Women in STEM Caucus for this term.”

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44. “Mr. Speaker, within 12 hours, this very Chamber is going to witness a joint address to Congress. I will take my time and my privilege as a duly elected Member of this Chamber to share some of the sentiments about the state of the Union that is emerging very clearly and loudly from Michigan and on behalf of my constituents.”

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45. “Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening to say that tariffs on Canada are going to blow a hole in the United States automotive industry. I ask the President to not put 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods. Our automakers, our supply chain, and our autoworkers cannot take this hit. Let's work together to come up with a plan to invest in manufacturing in a bipartisan, commonsense way. These tariffs are not the answer.”

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46. “Speaker, what is even more outrageous, as we are talking about the rulemaking and the rolling back and the ways in which we choose to legislate here, is we are not talking about the costs that are impacting everyday Americans. I got sworn in on January 3 into the 119th Congress.”

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47. “Mr. Speaker, today, I stood with the House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic Whip, Katherine Clark, our House Democratic Chair, Pete Aguilar, and Congressman Sean Casten to introduce the Taxpayer Data Protection Act because what is going on in the Treasury Department is lawless and wrong and frightening for the American people. Elon Musk should not have access to your data and to the payment systems.”

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48. “Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This past Monday, our Nation celebrated MLK Day, a powerful reminder of the ongoing effort for equality and justice and the profound impact an individual can make. It is also a day spent volunteering and a day of action. I am so deeply proud of the schools across Oakland County, Michigan, who engaged in volunteer activities.”

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49. “Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the tremendous achievements of President Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States. While I could spend my time highlighting the nearly innumerable achievements of his administration, I rise to celebrate what this Nation is today because of President Biden's leadership, a nation on the rise.”

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