House Proceeding 07-09-09 on Jul 9th, 2009 :: 0:28:15 to 0:34:30
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Marcy Kaptur: i ask all members to please join me in honoring the distinguished memory of lance corporal seth sharp. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. ms. kaptur. ms. kaptur: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection,

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Speech By: Marcy Kaptur

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Marcy Kaptur: recognized for five minutes. ms. kaptur: thank you. mr. speaker, tomorrow hundreds and hundreds of americans will gather in new york to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the st. lawrence seaway development corporation, the frth sea coast of our country, stretching all the way from duluth, minnesota, all the way out to

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Marcy Kaptur: the atlantic ocean, and for communities such as toledo and others, the st. lawrence seaway water borne corridor is the gateway to the atlantic and the world beyond. the seaway is the lynch pin in our effort to create sophticated, modern distribution hubs that can skirt

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Marcy Kaptur: the congestion in coastle ports in our country. the seaway, our core corridor that we share with the canadians, is the vital link of commerce between our nation's heartland and world markets. therefore, investments in the seaway are investments in our economic future for the great lakes states but for the nation. as the united states congress

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Marcy Kaptur: considers clean energy legislation and a national power generation policy, it is important that that policy remediate a major national inequity that must be included in any reform bill. power costs are just horrendous in the gret lakes states.

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Marcy Kaptur: in fact, double and triple the rates of our western and southern brethren in our country. and when you think about those regions having had the luxury of federal power support for nearly 75 years and they've enjoyed those power supports, they were really a product of a nation

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Marcy Kaptur: that believed in growing to the west and the south and we made it happen. but our great lakes region along with some northeastern states are the only parts of our country without equal access to federal benefits for electric power generation and transmission, thus denying competitive rates to our residential, commercial and industrial consumers. the high costs of power just in

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Marcy Kaptur: my district here in northern ohio at 14 cents to 18 cents per kilowatt hour, is a serious factor contributing to job loss in fact, the midwest is put at a competitive disadvantage with the entire rest of the country not because we have fewer resources or less skilled workers but because federal

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Marcy Kaptur: subsidies encourage development in western and southern areas but not in ours. the house version of the energy bill includes a provision members of the great lakes states worked very hard to incorporate. it begins the process of leveling the energy playing field for these great lakes states and creating the startup of federal energy parity.

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Marcy Kaptur: the great lakes region is home to 160 million people that account for well over 1/3 of our nation's gross domestic product and we've long endured these serious competitive disadvantages because of the absenc of federal power parity. this provision aims to level the playing field with all other regions of the country, the south, the west, the southeast,

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Marcy Kaptur: the tennessee valley authority, that have benefited for over 75 years from federal power assistance to develop their economies. these regions borrow at very favorable federal funds rates and also receive significant energy infrastructure investments annually with the western power authority alone receiving over $228 million just

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Marcy Kaptur: in the last year. in the recovery bill passed earlier this year, there was an additional $6.5 billion just for bondville power authority and the western area power authorize, along with $10 million for added infrastructure and administration. for infrastructure, for

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Marcy Kaptur: renewable power generation, really, these federal supports provide a huge strategic advantage. the language we're offering would prose a similar $3.5 billion borrowing authority to create jobs through the development of clean energy platforms and if we don't do this in our region, those green energy jobs are going to flow to the other parts of the country. this provision would allow a

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Marcy Kaptur: federal instrumentality such as the st. lawrence corporation to undertake these green energy development activities ross great lakes communities. and as the energy bill moves to the senate, members of this body must continue to demand equal treatment from the federal government for all regions of our nation. our regions track record -- our

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Marcy Kaptur: region's track record is commendable, it speaks for itself. we have massive biofuels industries, the first solar plant at a u.s. national guard base, establishment of clean energy incubators at many of our advanced universities and an expanding rosser of startup green companies that are pursuing exciting opportunities

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Marcy Kaptur: in solar, wind and other green power sectors. the great lakes deserve to be a part of the solution to clean energy in our country. but in order to do this, we need to have that federal energy power parity with the other regions of the country that have now developed as a result of what the midwest and northeast did for them over three quarters

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Marcy Kaptur: of a century ago. a true revolution in green energy can only be ushered in a balanced way when the great lakes have the same instrumentalities that ushered in generations of western and southern growth. mr. speaker, i yield ba the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. mr. gohmert.

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Marcy Kaptur: texas. that was a plight gentleman. for what purpose does the gentleman rise? -- polite gentleman. for what purpose does the