Hansen Clarke: “Congress really needs to do much more to better protect our State and local communities, and I will tell you why.”

Investing in Detroit means investing in the 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.

Because of that, I am very concerned that the new broadcast spectrum auction... could really pose a problem to many of the people that I represent who are senior citizens or disabled, who are struggling financially.

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.