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Nydia Velázquez
@nydiavelzquez· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

11 million of them are spending half of their income on housing for rent.

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Nydia Velázquez
@nydiavelzquez· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

They said just the pause button of 2 years did that of saying and reducing, again, the attractiveness of low-income housing.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

Madam President, last night, the country heard some good news. The members of the conference committee announced a tentative agreement to keep the government open past Friday as well as provide additional border security. It was welcome…

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

Madam President, on another matter, late last week, I had the privilege of addressing an audience at the Newseum about the current challenges facing the free press in America. I ask unanimous consent that my remarks be printed in the…

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

I think that we can say today that probably all, if not most, of the members of this committee are really concerned with the violence in Venezuela, the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela affecting thousands of families that has led to an…

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

Some have characterized it as being perhaps like appointing Exxon to lead a discussion on the Green New Deal or maybe even appointing MBS to lead a discussion on fairness in journalism and accessibility to journalism.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

I am listening to all of this testimony today, and one of the questions and the concerns that I have is with respect to the racial wealth gap.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

a very large amount of high-income foreign buyers are taking up a large amount of this inventory...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

I think we have identified large causal factors, whether it is the racist legacy of our criminal justice system...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

So these industries are in no way looking--and it doesn't look like any of the people who are reaping the profits of this are the people who were directly impacted?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

the folks who profited off of for-profit incarceration get to profit off of the legalization of marijuana first while the communities most impacted are last in the door.

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Yvette Clarke
@yvetteclarke· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

Speaking on behalf of my constituents in Brooklyn, New York, they care about creating and keeping good paying jobs particularly in New York City.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

He shuts down the government for 35 days in a reckless fashion and then says uncle at the end and engages in an unconditional surrender when he could have gotten at least $1.6 billion.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Feb 12, 2019

What does seem to be the case is that this is more bluster and misdirection from the President of the United States of America because he apparently is concerned that despite his promise that we will going to get sick of the winning, all…

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Elise Stefanik
@elisestefanik· Republican · NY· Feb 12, 2019

Women deserve equal pay for equal work and in the United States, this is the law of the land.

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