the climate corps has already spread to several other states across our country, and recently president biden announced the creation of the americandescribed in her work exemplifies the power of climate corps — that she is able to notjust tackle climate change in a real way, but she is able to provide capacity for the state of california, for the county that she works in. and most importantly, in doing her work, she is engaging literally thousands of members of the community to also be part of the solution. and it's a model that's empowering and inspiring, and it's working, and it's why we're seeing it's started to spread across the country. julia, when you're out there doing your fellowship, what are people telling you? when you interact with the community, what are people saying? people are asking all sorts of questions. they really want to understand why we're out there and what we're doing. they're very excited when they hear about california climate action corps, because they never knew it was a possibility. just to have such a focus on it — i think a lot of my work is learning how to communicate with different individuals, a

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kaptur: i rise in opposition to this amendment which prohibits funding if for american climate corps. i've long been a champion of engaging young people. in the climate corps. to teach practical skills, to get them out of their narrow worlds and to provide a more open opportunity as happen maryland years ago with the works progress administration. and the whole intent of the climate corps is to create capable people and give them skills to move into ultimately middle class jobs, focused on weatherizing homes in this country. installing solar and other energy infrastructure. mitigate -- hopefully we'll get some mechanical engineers out of that. some water engineers. hydraulic engineers. mitigating coastal erosion. maybe we'll get some army corps of engineer enlistees. preventing fires and flooding. you can't go out west and not have an energy company tell you they're short on people who can climb the boles and try to repair after the wildfires out there. flooding. coast forward needs individuals to enlist. constructing and maintaining public trails and more. all these wonderful, wonder

reduction act with the highest investment ever in taking on climate change, with the first ever american climate corps, creating 20,000 jobs for young people to reserve our planet, with justice 40, 40% of all our federal investments going into the communities that are most disproportionately burdened and how about the negotiations with the chips and science act that i sat down and negotiated with commerce secretary raymondo on behalf of the progressive congress, that corporations who do stock buybacks don't get federal money. now, elizabeth warren and i are having to do some accountability, let's say, and actually make sure that doesn't happen. it's the first time we even have it in writing to be able to do the accountability we're doing right now. by pushing hard and holding the line we took on age old battles and won like forcing big phrma to negotiate drug prices with medicare, capping the cost of insulin at $35 for seniors, making the wealthiest corporations and individuals begin to pay more of their fair share and yes, by getting the administration to use their executive power to finally cancel b