Archive - Apr 23, 2009

This is a must-watch! At yesterday's hearing Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock, Pennsylvania, asked Congress on behalf of blue-collar workers across the country to be bold in capping pollution and investing in a clean energy economy:

Here's the last portion of his testimony, where he asks Congress to 'be bold':

So I respectfully ask this Congress to be bold. To overhaul our economy and free us from our addition to imported oil. I ask you to ignore the scare tactics of the well funded interests – and answer the call of Braddock to build a new energy future, and a New American Century, with the ready hands of America’s workers.

And I've pasted the entire thing from the Subcommittee's PDF after the jump: