today as one of only 14 american heritage rivers, the cuyahoga flows through the cuyahoga valley national park where bald eagles nest. throughout ohio our clean water supply such as the cuyahoga are critical to farming and clean energy development and regional economic competitiveness. water-related recreation and tourism provide jobs and billions of dollars in revenues for communities, cities like lorraine, cities in lake county, cities like my wife's hometown of ashtabula, cities like throed. wildlife depends on -- like toledo. we must continue to protect our wetlands and our streams to bolster our fisheries, to increase habitat restoration and recreational opportunities throughout the great lakes. it will mean coming from the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars of assistance from all five of the great lakes. it will then mean billions of investment dollars around the in recreation, in fishing, in economic development, in safe drinking water. this includes these -- these efforts include reducing the number of combined sewage overflows into our waterways and removing the t

largest national park east of the mississippi, the cuyahoga valley national park. i know they were both tremendously proud of that. it was a wonderful opportunity for that area of ohio because there are large cities on various sides of this and it provides recreational and other opportunities for a large population and if they had not acted when they did, it might not be there today. and it was done by those two representatives working as best they could with colleagues in both political parties and will stand as a lasting monument to their joint efforts on behalf of our country and certainly the people of their region in ohio. ralph and mary were a great and are a great team and one other thing i think i might mention, ralph is kind of a gentleman farmer and he used to spend a lot of time working with his grandchildren and family and all that. but ronald reagan was kind of a gentleman farmer, too. he had this ranch out in california, where he cleared brush and was trying to develop and it turned out he and ralph were talking over and reagan discovered that ralph w

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east of there we had nasa glen in cuyahoga county. the things we can do and achieve in this country through the space program is limitless. however, if we stand by what we're seeing happening across congress today with this cap and tax legislation, we're in trouble. one of the things i'm proud of the fact is in think district, the fifth congressional district, i represent an area that we manufacturer solar panels, with first solar. we have another company coming online this fall. we also in my district have wind turbines, ethanol, biomass and we're doing all these things and the alternatives. also it's very, very important in this country we have the base power to be able to manufacture what we have to have. we want to continue to be independent in this country, especially in the manufacture and the new age of space, we have to make sure we have these homegrown companies here today. it's going to be very, very difficult to do that if we don't have the manufacturing capacity and if we also don't have the base load capacity. one of the

so this is an urgent issue for the people i am so honored to represent. i mentioned that i introduced to protect consumers act which was a bill that would give the fda mandatory recall authority and i'm happy to see that it is a part of this comprehensive bill. and i would just like to get a little bit more of your opinion about the need for a recall authority and this bill of chorus seeks to remedy the situation of the fda not having a mandatory recall authority by laying out to different types of recall authority is your first that the fda believe certain food because adverse health consequences are that that they can recall -- require recall, but in that scenario fda must first of the company an opportunity to voluntarily recall products and that doesn't work then the fda can order a mandatory recall and the second time every call is emergency recall if the fda five certainly it presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences are that. you may do that immediately. can you just telling about whether you think that and the need and the approach