As legislators, we MUST recognize that growth is inevitable and growth is necessary. However, my hope is that my colleagues will utilize smart growth initiatives outlined by the Clinton administration to protect the environment, while also supporting the growing transportation and infrastructure needs of their districts and states.
Advocating for the use of smart growth initiatives to balance development and environmental protection.
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Asian Americans are often still seen as outsiders, as foreigners, as aliens.
I really do think that we are in a moral situation. People are striving to live, trying to breathe the air of our country, trying to be better, trying to be healthy.
The American people demanded that their representatives in Washington fight for them and for what affects their lives on a day-to-day basis.
It is only recently in the last 50 years or so that many of these laws have changed.
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