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Longtime New York Congressman Charles Rangel will face a formal ethics committee hearing. Rangel faces allegations of failing to report various forms of income, from rent-controlled apartments in New York to a house in the Dominican…
The devastation brought by the financial crisis is still with us, and while output has begun to grow, it is not growing rapidly enough to replace the millions of jobs lost during this crisis.
The effects of long-term unemployment, which destroys job skills and demoralizes those who suffer from it, has the potential to create serious long-term problems in our Nation.
In short, it looks like our economy is in need of additional help.
I would like to thank Senator Gillibrand for her efforts in addressing the milk price crisis that all dairy farmers have endured in the last 18 months.
I really want to associate my comments with some of those of Senator Thune, who also talked a little bit about this issue.
I would urge you to do so, particularly because we have so many opportunities for energy production in New York State.
What I would like to focus a little bit of time on is the biomass definition contained in the Energy Investment and Security Act of 2007 and the amount of confusion that it is creating because it does not really comport with the definition…
The U.S. is pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to build dams and power plants and to invest in small businesses.
We were very big fans of the Schumer-Hatch, the HIRE Act, and that we thought that a jobs tax credit was something with very good job bang for the bucks that are on the line.
it is essential that women's rights and women's opportunities are not sacrificed or trampled on in the reconciliation process.
The official unemployment rate remains unacceptably high, 9.5 percent. But if you are one of the 15 million Americans who are out of work, the unemployment rate feels more like 100 percent.
We in the Congress need to do more to spur job creation.
According to a recent report by the Treasury Department, the tax cut has been a wild success.
The tax cut we proposed passed the Senate with 70 votes and became law as part of the HIRE Act in March.
It is my hope that the Senate will take up this matter after the District Work Period.