Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2021

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Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I thank the Chairwoman for yielding and thank her for her dutiful service to our country. What a legacy to leave for the American people. Congratulations.

I rise today to highlight two amendments I have offered to the America COMPETES Act. The first will ensure that innovative startups in our Great Lakes region, our freshwater industrial heartland, are prioritized when Federal support is awarded to accelerate the commercialization of clean energy technology.

The second will allow economically distressed communities throughout the industrial heartland to receive fair consideration for new investments in domestic solar facilities. This is vitally important when our Nation is competing against China, which constantly hacks our technology and takes outsourced jobs paying penny wages to their workers.

The America COMPETES Act offers a remarkable opportunity to stimulate 21st century growth in America. We must make sure these investments reach down to the communities that have been outsourced of jobs and not always received their fair share in compensation.

My amendments will allow Great Lakes communities to receive the resources they deserve as they labor to make, build, and grow that which makes, builds, and grows America. I ask for support of these amendments.

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