American Competitiveness of A More Productive Emerging Tech Economy Act
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Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Madam Speaker, I thank Chairman Pallone and Ranking Member Walden for your leadership, and of course, to the leadership of my ranking member on the Subcommittee of Consumer Protection and Commerce, Representative Rodgers, for her innovative work on the American COMPETE Act. I am so proud to support that, and I urge all of my colleagues, along with Representative Rodgers and, from the Democratic side, Mr. Rush, as a cosponsor of that legislation.
Madam Speaker, I think all of us would agree with the importance, and I love the phrase about winning the future. I think this legislation does lay a kind of blueprint of the direction that we can go in and the kinds of technologies that are really at hand if we put our energy and our minds to making it happen. I thank you very much.
Madam Speaker, I also just want to take this opportunity to say a special thank you at this moment and recognize the service of the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Walden.
There are so many things that you can now attribute your service to, the legislation that has passed, but I think even more than that, I just wanted to thank you for the kind of tone that you have set, both as the chairman and as the ranking member of the committee.
I think we can be so proud of the Energy and Commerce Committee. We have passed so many bills. We really are a legislative powerhouse. But we have also done it with the kind of integrity that I think shines so well on the Congress of the United States.
I just want to acknowledge what a great colleague he has been. I consider him a friend, and I wish him absolutely the best of luck. He will definitely be missed. I thank him so much.
Madam Speaker, I would also like to recognize Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Ranking Member Rodgers for the part that she has played and the partnership that I believe we have had. Of course, we have sometimes wanted to move at a different pace or had different ideas, but again, I just want to thank the gentlewoman for the tone that she helped set at our hearings and in our efforts to pass legislation.
Madam Speaker, I congratulate Ranking Member Rodgers on her hard work to move this bill, and I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.
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