Congresswoman Hirono Stands With Small Business Community
Amid calls to expand offshore drilling that would deepen America's dependence on fossil fuels and exacerbate the global warming crisis, Congresswomen Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Yvette Clarke (D-New York), and Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) called for real energy solutions to global warming at a press conference today outside the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill House Office Building on Capitol Hill.
The U.S Representatives, all members of the House Committee on Small Business, joined three small business owners representing 3,300 small businesses nationwide that are petitioning Congress to enact science-based solutions to the energy crisis that reduce the country's dependence on oil, solve the climate crisis, create jobs, and leave a clean environment for our children.
"America's small businesses owners know that global warming solutions are a win-win-win opportunity for the country," said Hirono. "We can simultaneously create 21st Century jobs, lead internationally in development of clean energy technologies, shake off our dangerous addiction to oil, and address the global warming crisis. I have been deeply impressed by the number of small businesses in my state of Hawaii engaged in the development of innovative technologies. These businesses will respond if the federal government provides leadership."
Lawyers, carpenters, steelworkers, doctors, farmers, restaurateurs, scientists, mechanics, and teachers, to name just a few of the thousands of small business representatives on the petition from small towns and big cities across the country agree that the future of the country's entrepreneurs depends on a safe climate.
"The future of America's small businesses depend on the decisions we make today. Investing in global warming solutions is investing in our economy and our communities. The time to act is now," said Jim Costigan, a welder from Philadelphia.
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