Congress is made up more and more today of crusaders as opposed to legislators.
Richard 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.
I hold to the position that tax policy cannot be done on the basis of political philosophy and needs to be based upon policy philosophy.
We need to hear from middle class families. We need to talk about expanding the child credit.
We don't want to pick winners and losers. We are not going to do it through the Tax Code.
I think that until we begin to address now the 47 million Americans who receive food stamps, trying to figure out how to get many of those people back to work because they really do want to work.
I've always thought that the safety net was supposed to act also as sort of a trampoline, that you hit it and you bounce back.
Seven to nine million Americans are working part-time that want to work full-time.
I maintain and I hope we have a hearing on this because I think there is an easy pragmatic solution.
We enact a proposal in which 11 million seniors will get a tax cut immediately.





