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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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Feb 15, 2017

I have a healthy distrust of what the U.S. Trade Representative has been doing in the past.

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Feb 6, 2017

I have to say you have done a masterful job with the able support of Mr. Cummings and the relentless leadership of Mr. Connolly and Mr. Meadows.

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Feb 1, 2017

This is high confidence. This is our own FBI, high confidence that they hacked the election, that they interfered with the election.

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Feb 1, 2017

Look, look they hacked--they hacked the American election. That is worth looking into.

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Nov 30, 2016

Having no further speakers on our side, I yield back the balance of my time.

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Nov 30, 2016

I support this bipartisan bill, which simply makes a technical correction to clarify that the Administrator of the General Services Administration is responsible for managing mail in the executive branch. The Administrator of the GSA has…

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Nov 30, 2016

There's some inconsistency... with your answers.

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Nov 30, 2016

We all have daughters go to work every single day. Do you think we want to see this go on at a workplace like this?

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Nov 30, 2016

You have the ability to fire these people; you just chose not to do it.

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Sep 28, 2016

The fines thus far are pathetic, really, totally inadequate to try to bring Wells Fargo into compliance with the law.

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Sep 28, 2016

I would also like to ask the chairman to consider doing a hearing at a later time with a number of the employees, both whistleblowers who were fired and others who were fired for retaliatory attempts to provide information on the…

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Sep 20, 2016

It's disgraceful what's going on here, but I think, in a way, like I say, you've done us a little bit of a favor here by just showing you what's wrong with this system.

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Sep 20, 2016

Maybe that's what we ought to do for Medicare and Medicaid and everybody else, let them negotiate their own drug prices directly with the pharmaceutical companies.

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Sep 20, 2016

The numbers, the documents you gave us are totally deficient in terms of trying to figure out how much you're charging people.

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Sep 13, 2016

We changed it in the House version. We did. We changed it in the House.

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Sep 13, 2016

We punished them. We put in a Cadillac tax.

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Sep 13, 2016

We took out the public option, so we eliminated a lot of competition that would have otherwise occurred.

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Sep 13, 2016

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank yourself and Chairman Meadows and Ranking Member Connolly for holding this hearing to examine the threat of extremism and radicalization, especially of the homegrown ilk.

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Sep 11, 2016

There is a relevant case law, and, Mr. Herring, I would say that there is constitutional language that would prohibit what's going on here today.

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Sep 11, 2016

It is completely out of bounds for Congress to overturn a decision of a court on one specific case.

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Sep 11, 2016

I need to apologize for the way that you're being treated here today.

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Sep 9, 2016

I wish to join with my colleagues in support of today's vote on S. 2040, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). Next week, our nation will mark the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. The United States suffered…

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Sep 7, 2016

I have enormous respect and admiration for Secretary Powell, and we remain as a country thankful for his courageous service.

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Sep 6, 2016

On the other hand, whistleblowers, some people call them our first line of defense.

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Sep 6, 2016

It surely appears that we have done a number of iterations to try to revamp and reform the Office of the Inspector General at DOD.

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