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Susan Muffley Act of 2022

Floor Speech

Date: July 27, 2022
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I thank Chairman Kildee for yielding time.

Madam Speaker, a miracle is happening here. Michigan Wolverines and Ohio Buckeyes, on a bipartisan basis, are agreeing. Wow. Everybody should vote for this act, for America's sake.

I am so proud to help celebrate the passage day of the Susan Muffley Act that will restore retirement benefits for thousands of Delphi retirees. Hard work should be rewarded.

The men and women who built up Delphi were made a promise in return for their years of hard work, and they were promised a stable and secure retirement during their golden years.

Over the years, the American worker has time and again seen promises broken, and they have seen the financial security they earned and is rightfully theirs thrown away. Now, the Susan Muffley Act makes good on Delphi's original promise.

Workers in Defiance, Ohio, and Sandusky, Ohio, and throughout Michigan and the Midwest will see, by restoring their benefits, the retirees who worked hard and built America will have the future they paid for and earned.

We know that the Susan Muffley Act is a giant step forward in justice, justice for Americans who worked hard and were cast aside until now.

I thank Congressman Kildee for his absolutely tireless and relentless efforts to bring this to the floor. To get anything out of the Ways and Means Committee is a miracle anyway.

For Ohio, this means 5,000 families--believe me, many who can't afford their medicine, many who worry about tomorrow--will be celebrating. There will be a sense of being made whole again because of what they gave to this country, what they gave to their employers, and that bargain should be kept.

Madam Speaker, I congratulate Congressman Kildee. The Wolverine State has sent a highly capable American to Congress. I thank Congressman Turner of the great Buckeye State of Ohio, from the Dayton region, for this great partnership to help thousands and thousands of America's retirees.

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