Leading on the Great Lakes
What they say
His campaign says that, as co-chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, he leads efforts to strengthen the Great Lakes' economy and ecology.
“As Co-Chair of the Great Lakes Task Force and a founding member of the PFAS Task Force, Bill leads efforts to strengethen the economy & the ecology of the Great Lakes”
What the record shows ·
He was an original cosponsor of the GLRI Act of 2019, which funds the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and voted for it on February 5, 2020 (373-45). It became Public Law 116-294 on January 5, 2021. He also cosponsored the GLRI Act of 2016, whose text became law in the WIIN Act, which he voted for (roll 622, 360-61). He was an original cosponsor of the 2024 and 2025 renewals; the 2025 bill, H.R. 284, is still in House committee, and a Senate bill to renew the program, S. 528, passed the Senate on September 29, 2026.
Limit: A June 2017 statement from Rep. Marcy Kaptur's office names him a co-chair of the House Great Lakes Task Force; no later list was found. That he was a founding member of the PFAS Task Force rests on his own office's January 2019 release. David Joyce of Ohio sponsored the 2016, 2019 and 2025 House bills.