It's now been 803 days since I arrived in Congress and the Republican leadership has still not allowed a single vote on serious legislation to address our unemployment crisis. My question is simple: Why then are we here? In poll after…

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This particular issue means a lot to me personally, and it actually means a lot to this community.

I have more than 10,000 children enrolled that I personally sent to this college.

Dr. Padron is known internationally for what he has done here in this community with this college.

This is something that is going to be the betterment of this entire community and generations yet unborn.

I know we cannot spread out anymore because there is no room downtown.

the one thing that I think we need to do is expand the pool of counselors, social workers and mentors.

That's the difference in the school districts, but I think that one thing that should be available to all schools is enough counselors and enough social workers and mentors for the children.

I think that one thing that should be available to all schools is enough counselors and enough social workers and mentors for the children.

The one thing I think we need to do is expand the pool of school counselors, and social workers who can make home visits.

I think that in every tragic incident we have within school violence we always end up saying someone should have done something or someone could have done something to prevent this.