Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2022

Floor Speech

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Mr. LAMB. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill not only for the important semiconductor provisions but for some of the provisions that are less noticed, including the text of the SUPER Act authored by Representative Gonzalez of Ohio and me which focuses on how to get the carbon emissions out of steelmaking.

It is often the people from steelmaking parts of the country who stand up in support of provisions like this, but this is important for every American. Every American uses 600 pounds of steel every single year. If you think about the roads you drive on, the bridges and buildings you enter, your own car, and your own house, Mr. Speaker, it starts to add up.

There is nowhere in the world that they make this steel without emitting more CO2 into the atmosphere. Somewhere someone in the world is going to figure out how to do that. If we do it here in the United States--we are already emitting less than everybody else-- but if we can get it to zero, then we will have a product that everyone in the world is looking for and is crucial to our future. This bill will help us do that.

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