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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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Jul 11, 2023

James Madison said that those who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

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Jul 11, 2023

I absolutely oppose any efforts to rollback project labor agreements.

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Jul 11, 2023

I fully support every last dollar that we have committed to the Ukrainian people to maintain their freedom and their democracy.

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Jul 11, 2023

And that is obviously an attempt to throw a monkey wrench into the way that Congress has acted for decades under both Republicans and Democrats controlling the gavel.

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Jul 11, 2023

Today, I am happy to partner with Congresswoman Mace on legislation to allow just this kind of competition when it comes to our Federal cybersecurity jobs.

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Jul 11, 2023

If this bill were to become law, Mr. Comer's fellow committee chairs would need to immediately set aside their agendas for the rest of the term to deal with the self-inflicted catastrophe of these reauthorization needs.

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Jul 11, 2023

The H.R. 4435, the Unauthorized Spending Accountability Act, should perhaps be renamed the 'Dysfunction Proliferation Act,' because it would mire congressional proceedings down in a new and overwhelmingly untenable workload.

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Jul 11, 2023

PLAs work, and legalizing their non-use, mandating their non-use is fraught with problems.

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Jul 11, 2023

It jeopardizes the livelihoods of constituents in every congressional district.

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Jun 21, 2023

The United States capital markets are the envy of the world because of the work the SEC does.

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Jun 21, 2023

It is ironic that when we passed Dodd-Frank and gave the SEC the responsibility for restoring trust in the markets, that the industry is pushing back.

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Jun 21, 2023

That is not capitalism; that is socialism.

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Jun 21, 2023

We reverted to socialism when we took $700 billion from the people, taxpayer money, and gave it to the banks.

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Jun 20, 2023

We fund about 25,000 job training programs, and according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), we don't do a very good job.

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Jun 20, 2023

I can't help but see this as an opportunity to perhaps redouble our efforts to pull workers who don't traditionally have strong connections to the job market.

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Jun 20, 2023

I always took a dim view of softening of the labor market because it reduced targeting power.

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Jun 13, 2023

This corporate-driven regulatory agenda proved particularly harmful in rolling back critical environmental protections.

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Jun 12, 2023

The problem that I see is that the least cost resolution preference was meant to lower the cost of resolution.

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Jun 12, 2023

But in the aftermath of all of that, some of this is Monday morning quarterbacking...

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Jun 12, 2023

It is remarkable that the Commodity Exchange Act actually reads out of the law four major pieces of legislation that have been intrinsic to strengthening our markets.

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Jun 12, 2023

I want to revisit the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the exercise of the exception...

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Jun 5, 2023

I witnessed Republicans and Democrats running for their lives, so anybody who says that did not happen, let us just disabuse that notion.

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Jun 5, 2023

I do not diminish your service to your country or any other capacity. I am just talking about the facts of what has happened and what is going on.

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May 22, 2023

I think we can make a difference if we get together on this.

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May 16, 2023

I think you would get like 237,000 vehicles.

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