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Michael Capuano

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Mike Capuano is a former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, serving from 1999 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. During his tenure, Capuano was known for his advocacy on issues such as healthcare, education, and civil rights. He served on several committees, including the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he focused on infrastructure development and public transportation improvements in his district.

Mar 5, 2018

I have been working with and plan to work with Ranking Member DeFazio and my Democratic colleagues to develop a plan that does attract bipartisan support.

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Mar 5, 2018

Fixing the Highway Trust Fund for the future and modernizing how we fund infrastructure in this country must be part of the solution.

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Feb 26, 2018

But as we talked about earlier, some degree of equitable distribution of the benefits of a good economy is your job.

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Feb 26, 2018

I would ask, is the Fed interested in all, would you be interested in pursuing something--you oversee 7,000 entities, some of them large, some of them small, most of them pretty large.

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Feb 26, 2018

The reason you are not familiar with it is because the Trump Administration stopped it.

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Feb 26, 2018

A good economy for three people doesn't help for the 300 and some odd million people that live here.

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Feb 26, 2018

Don't you think it is a fair thing to ask how they pay their women, how they pay their African Americans, how they pay their Hispanics, if it is based on fairness or if it is based on some degree of discrimination?

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Feb 26, 2018

I personally think that a lot of the good we are seeing today is the result of the actions we took several years ago to stabilize, secure, and improve the economy and is now working its way through the system.

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Feb 14, 2018

I am hoping and wondering--have you spoken to either your attorneys or your insurers as to what will happen come January of next year if you have done what you are supposed to do on your track, and somebody else wants to run a train that…

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Feb 14, 2018

Mr. Chairman, I did, but you just expressed them all perfectly, and I would simply associate myself with every word you just said.

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Feb 14, 2018

Mr. Speaker, my amendment simply requires a company to have a policy in place to claw back executives' incentive-based pay if it is materially noncompliant with financial reporting requirements. Now, those words matter because the words…

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