Clean Energy Jobs

Floor Speech

Mr. YARMUTH. Madam Speaker, the Clean Energy Jobs plan, which recently
emerged from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is the next step to create millions of American jobs in clean energy efficiency and modernizing a smart electric grid. Clean energy can provide an engine to drive the Nation out of recession and sustain our economy for years to come.

In my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, we are already seeing the dividends from investments made in this country with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in the form of new green jobs. Earlier this week General Electric announced it would relocate production of a new energy-efficient water heater from China to Louisville's Appliance Park, which is the location of the Consumer Products Division of GE. Federal dollars allocated to the State energy fund from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and reserved for the manufacture of energy-efficient products are available to support this project and others like it.

The addition of 450 new green jobs in Louisville is a sign of the growth we had hoped would come from our major investment in the Nation's economic recovery and our commitment to moving this country toward energy independence.

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