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Steve Lynch

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Stephen Francis Lynch is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Lynch has focused on issues such as healthcare, labor rights, and economic development throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for working families and has worked to secure funding for various projects in his district.

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Sep 29, 2021

I fully support Mr. Foster's bill, H.R. 3305, which would change the whole dynamic of raising the debt limit.

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Sep 29, 2021

Never has it been a good time to destroy the full faith and credit of the United States.

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Sep 29, 2021

I view this latest threat to default on our debt as a direct attack on the American people and on our government itself.

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Sep 27, 2021

During the INVEST Act, I included language to ensure our nation's transit system, including ferries, is equipped with the necessary resources to combat cybersecurity attacks.

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Sep 27, 2021

I want to thank the chair, and I want to thank the full committee chair, Mr. DeFazio, because he has been an outstanding champion of expanding and improving upon our ferry systems.

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Sep 27, 2021

I actually had a bill that dealt with converting diesel buses in the transportation bill and converting the entire postal fleet to electric.

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Sep 27, 2021

I represent the Port of Boston, so not quite as bad, congestion-wise, as Mr. Sires is having in New Jersey, but we consider our ferry system a real blessing.

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Sep 27, 2021

I have had an opportunity during my time in Congress to visit quite a few prisons in Massachusetts and in my district...

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Sep 9, 2021

Forget going into these school boards and bringing data. You go into school boards to remove them.

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Sep 9, 2021

Thanks to Chairwoman Waters, we are finally getting back into the business of affordable housing.

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Sep 9, 2021

I am all in on public housing. Look, if we didn't have public housing, my family and I would have been homeless.

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Aug 30, 2021

Forget going into these school boards bringing data, you go into school boards to remove them. That’s what you do. Forget -- they don’t follow the law. They don’t follow the law. You go in and you remove them. I’m going in with 20 strong…

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Jul 27, 2021

One of the solutions, I think, is really to have Federal resources. You know, encourage and build incentives for young people to get into STEM-related professions.

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Jul 27, 2021

I think right now we have got about--a little more than three percent of the IT workers in the Federal Government are under 30 years of age and half of the IT work force is over 50.

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Jul 26, 2021

It's critically important for DOE to conduct a cybersecurity assessment of our electrical distribution systems

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Jul 20, 2021

If you want to investigate something, investigate your oath of office.

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Jul 20, 2021

I just want to remind them of what happened on January 6, and I watched my colleagues run for their lives in the face of the attacks on the Capitol.

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Jun 14, 2021

Despite all of this, we still have many Americans who are unbanked or underbanked, and a central bank digital currency may help alleviate these issues.

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Jun 7, 2021

I actually filed legislation to ban OxyContin because Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family had lied to the public.

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Jun 7, 2021

I just want to point out the glaring inconsistency of my Republican colleagues' newfound trust in the courts.

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Jun 6, 2021

96 percent of the American people believe that products that they buy for their home are governed by mandatory safety standards.

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May 19, 2021

I think that most of the concerns expressed by the members today have focused on... the withdrawal of that infrastructure.

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May 2, 2021

I have a bill that would reauthorize the Wartime Contracting Commission.

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Apr 19, 2021

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in support of the Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act. It has been 12 years since the cryptocurrency bitcoin was first introduced. Since then, digital assets…

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