Hansen Clarke: “This Employ Act would provide the people that I represent a chance to get on-the-job training, but also an opportunity…”

if we are able to get the resources, the tax dollars we already pay to be returned back here, we can rebuild ourselves and actually create prosperity throughout this country.

I also think it is important for this Congress and Department of Homeland Security to focus on preventing terrorists from entering our country in the first place.

We have to have a safe and secure city if we want to attract people and businesses back.

I urge you to include provisions that direct at least 10 percent of federal agency investments to communities where 20 percent or more of the population have lived below the poverty line for the last 30 years.