{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyburn.house.gov/clyburn-op-ed-for-the-post-and-courier-joe-biden-delivered-for-south-carolina/", "Clyburn Op-Ed For The Post And Courier: Joe Biden Delivered For South Carolina", "2025-01-22", "2025", "2025-01", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "James E. Clyburn", "C000537", "clyburn.house.gov", "clyburn", "https://clyburn.house.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06) penned an op-ed in the Post and Courier on President Biden\u2019s transformative impacts for the state of South Carolina.\n\nJoe Biden Delivered for South Carolina\n\nBy Congressman James E. Clyburn\n\nIn my 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden for President, I intoned, \u201cI know Joe. We know Joe, but more importantly, Joe knows us.\u201d Five years later, after expertly managing a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, successfully taming a global inflationary crisis, soldierly responding to a full-scale invasion of a sovereign nation by an adversary, and skillfully navigating life changing legislation through a narrowly divided Congress, those words I spoke about my friend, President Joe Biden, have proved prophetic.\n\nWhile the full impact of his presidency will not be felt for years, the seeds he planted are already taking root throughout the nation and are bearing good fruit across South Carolina. Consider the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, a bold, once-in-a-generation investment to modernize America\u2019s infrastructure that folks in Washington had talked about for decades but routinely failed to deliver. President Biden did with broad bipartisan support.\n\nTo date, that $1.2 trillion bill has invested nearly $5 billion in South Carolina and is funding a decades-long wish list of major infrastructure needs around the state. \u201cMalfunction Junction\u201d in Columbia is being reconfigured. The 60-year-old Lake Marion Bridges in Orangeburg and Clarendon counties are being replaced. Multi-million dollar access to Charleston\u2019s largest shipping terminal is being enhanced, and the harbor has been deepened.\n\nThe corridor from Spartanburg to the North Carolina border is being transformed, as is I-77 from Charlotte to Columbia. Extensive widening and intersection improvements are taking place along I-95 and I-26. And earlier this month, the Department of Transportation announced $204 million to eliminate the Assembly Street railroad crossings that have frustrated visitors and residents of our state\u2019s Capital for a century.\n\nBut it\u2019s not just roads and bridges. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invested in transit like the Lowcountry Rapid Transit project and expanding high-speed internet across the state. Also, in combination with President Biden\u2019s American Rescue Plan, South Carolina is receiving $950 million to connect residences and businesses to high-speed internet.\n\nAccording to the South Carolina Broadband Office, South Carolina is on track to achieve that goal by 2026. In 2024, South Carolina ranked as the fifth fastest growing state in the nation. This growth isn\u2019t being fueled solely by our \u201csmiling faces and beautiful places.\u201d South Carolina is retaining our workforce and attracting new talent thanks to historic private capital investment fueled by President Biden\u2019s legislative initiatives.\n\nBiden\u2019s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and CHIPS and Science Act are making landmark investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles, semiconductor manufacturing, and research into emerging advanced technologies. Companies have invested, on average, twice as much in South Carolina under President Biden ($8.3 billion a year) than under President Trump ($3.9 billion a year). Nearly 55,000 new jobs have been announced. In fact, five of the six largest investments in South Carolina over the past four years are by companies that benefit from IRA incentives.\n\nIn addition to becoming a national hub for the EV industry, South Carolina is poised to lead in alternative energy technologies, thanks to its designation as a Tech Hub under the CHIPS and Science Act and subsequent $45 million award. South Carolina\u2019s SC Nexus initiative will spur research into new clean energy technologies and create 14,000 new jobs across the Upstate and Midlands.\n\nMany of these new investments are still being developed and only half of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill\u2019s funds have been allocated. But the effects of President Biden\u2019s leadership are clear \u2014 during the last four years, South Carolina\u2019s economy experienced its fastest growth rate since the Clinton Administration.\n\nIt cannot be understated how much President Biden has done to make our nation\u2019s greatness accessible and affordable for South Carolina\u2019s families; capping insulin for Medicare patients at $35 per month, approving student loan forgiveness for over 5 million borrowers, and removing medical debt from people\u2019s credit score to make it easier to purchase a home or take out a small business loan.\n\nPresident Trump assumed the presidency promising to repeal the Inflation Reduction and the Affordable Care Acts, and eliminate the Departments of Energy and Education. These short-sighted actions would be a disaster for our state and nation. Electric vehicles and clean energy technologies are industries of the future. They also produce good-paying jobs that should be located here in South Carolina \u2014 not overseas.\n\nBiden\u2019s 29-point victory in South Carolina\u2019s 2020 Presidential Primary catapulted him into the presidency, and what a presidency it has been. Last Sunday, we spent his last day in office worshipping together at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston. In my remarks, I referred to Pastor Issac Holt\u2019s morning scripture, Galatians 6:9, and encouraged President Biden to, \u201cnot grow weary of doing good, for in due season (he) will reap if (he) does not give up.\u201d In my not-so-humble opinion, history will be very kind to Joseph R. 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