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Michelle Wu is an American politician serving as the Mayor of Boston since November 2021. She is the first woman and the first person of color to hold this office. A member of the Democratic Party, Wu previously served as a Boston City Councilor from January 2014 until November 2021. During her tenure, she has focused on issues such as affordable housing, climate change, and equitable access to public services.
I believe that Oregon will be able to maintain its current program through the end of this fiscal year, and ask you to continue working with me to complete reauthorization legislation that will improve TANF for families across the nation…
I certainly do not expect a solution to the problems of this particular reauthorization this evening. I would like to simply note that under the plenary authority that Congress has over many issues, including this one, that it is within…
I oppose the resolution to grant the President's unilateral authority to go to war. Make no mistake about it, I would not hesitate to use force if there were sufficient evidence of an imminent threat to the United States, our allies, or…
H.R. 4609 directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of groundwater resources in certain areas of Washington and Idaho. In the Pacific Northwest, our water resources are precious resources, and we expect the results of the…
I believe that these brave Americans died not just to keep us free from foreign invaders or foreign forces, I believe that these brave people went into battle and many of them died so that we could protect our liberties at home. ... We…
The rarest of all beasts came to this floor completely undecided on this bill. I submitted a bill in the last Congress to completely eliminate price supports for sugar, but after careful consideration about this, well, I think of two kids…
If this practice were going on in Canada, we would have stopped it long ago. If this practice were going on with people that we thought were very much like us, I think we would have stopped it cold long, long ago. I look very much like the…
Amendment No. 40 offered by Mr. Wu: At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following: TITLE VIII--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 801. None of the funds made available in this Act may be…
While we are debating the great issues of education, I just want to recall a visit to Reedville Elementary School in Aloha, Oregon, where the class size initiative is working exactly as intended. There were 54 kids in the first-year class…
Class sizes are way too large and we all know that, but it is not right to pit teacher training against class size reduction or any other education priority. The reason that we cannot do both class size reduction and teacher quality…
I believe that this adjustment enjoys bipartisan support, and it is also supported by the administration. I am in receipt of a letter from the administration stating that the administration supports the amendment to be offered by the…
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