Rich Neal
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Richard Edmund Neal is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Neal has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for Social Security and has expressed concerns about privatization efforts by Republicans. Neal has also been vocal about the impacts of trade policies on American families, particularly criticizing the effects of the Trump administration's trade war.
Denouncing bigotry in all forms is an American value, and that is one that we must carry forward from here today.
The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education needs additional resources that--the challenges that we have all described are so great.
It is time that we advance legislation that increases Social Security benefits to reflect the true cost of living that they experience and does so by making the wealthiest Americans, who have done extraordinarily well, ... pay their fair…
The majority is a threat to the health and economic security of our American people.
We are bringing down healthcare and household energy costs. The clean energy economy has created over 270,000 jobs.
The tax code is about values, in my belief, and you can do it in a way that supports working people or not.
The greatest abuse of the Constitution in my lifetime is when a former President incited a riot that tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
It ballooned the deficit by $1.5 trillion, and the bill never paid for itself.
I believe that the Trump tax cuts are really one of the most egregious giveaways to the most wealthy individuals in this country.
We have to work together, Republicans and Democrats, if we are going to create a tax system for our country.
We can't sustain a $34 trillion debt, and we have to work on bringing that down.
We need to make sure that we are addressing the challenges of climate change.
We need to invest in our young kids in early education through their primary grades onto university and Ph.D.s.





