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Thank you so much Representative Machin for your work on environmental Justice Speaker Pelosi for your vision and your years of advocacy for the environment Chair Custer for your leadership on the select Committee. What an honor it has been to serve with so many talented brilliant members to craft this bold science based comprehensive comprehensive Climate action plan, and to all the advocates who are here and around the country. Thank you the climate crisis. Our entire country and it will end economy and it will take the entire country and the entire economy to address it climate solutions are economic solutions and the solutions in this climate action plan will make our economy and our communities stronger healthier and fairer at this time in our country about 47 million people have filed for unemployment entire. Are on the brink this climate action plan can help them transform and thrive in that transformation. We know that workers will continue to be on the front lines and they need our support. So we collaborated with labor leaders to craft this plan, which will create good paying high quality jobs across the country, which we need now more than ever as a leader on the. And Labor Committee and the granddaughter of a coal miner, I know the way we transition to a clean energy economy. how we support the workforce is as important as the transition itself clean energy jobs should be good family wage jobs and that will restore fairness to our economy starts with making it easier for workers to form a Union and collectively bargain to correct injustices of the past to federal clean energy investments need to uphold. Standards labor standards like Buy American provisions we need to be making and producing and buying clean energy products in this country. Davis baking davis-bacon prevailing wage requirements and the use of community benefit agreements and project labor agreements that help keep labor local We need to make sure workers are safe on the job We need registered apprenticeships to support individuals who have historically faced barriers to these good paying. Especially women and people of color who should be able to access good clean energy and infrastructure jobs and importantly, critically fossil fuel workers who becoming dislocated or displaced need targeted support services and resources, which will be provided through a National economic transition office. also as coach of the House of Oceans Caucus and Congressional Congressional Estuary Caucus, I am thrilled. Climate action plan recognizes the power of our ocean to be part of the solution The blue economy our commercial fisheries ports tourism outdoor recreation contribute more than seven and a half trillion dollars to the US economy annually We can support good paying jobs and protect the health of our ocean by investing in restoration of blue carbon ecosystems by capturing the power of waves to generate clean energy and by helping our ocean. Adapt to the effects of climate crisis affects like ocean, acidification and harmful algae blooms our climate action plan will protect our planet create good-paying jobs support a just transition and build more resilient communities I look forward to working with our colleagues on the select Committee and all of our colleagues here in Congress to enact these policies and create a better future for generations to come. And now it's. To to welcome and introduce one of our terrific colleagues freshman from Colorado, who has contributed greatly to the select Committee and to Congressman goose from Colorado.











