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Betty McCollum

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Betty Louise McCollum is a U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 4th congressional district, serving since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused her legislative efforts on education, healthcare, and environmental issues. Throughout her tenure, McCollum has been an advocate for policies that support public education funding, access to affordable healthcare, and initiatives aimed at combating climate change. She has also been involved in various committees and has played a role in shaping national policy on these critical issues.

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Feb 12, 2019

I mean, you look at the budget in the Department of Defense, I think we can come up with environmental remediation.

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Feb 12, 2019

We are an arctic Nation, we need to pay more attention to the fact that we are an arctic Nation...

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Feb 12, 2019

Fewer cadets and midshipmen chose, chose, to make sexual harassment complaints this year than last. Chose.

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Feb 12, 2019

We need to... have an adult conversation we all need to have in Congress about what to do.

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Feb 12, 2019

I really truly believe is an all-of-government approach, because when you look at DOD, we are a minority in the whole players nationwide.

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Feb 12, 2019

I would like to know what is happening in that realm.

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Feb 12, 2019

I have $6 billion worth of repair. We can't keep affording to do this.

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Apr 10, 2018

I think you have heard from the committee that we will be looking very seriously, in my opinion from hearing others, that the diabetes program stay mandatory and not become discretionary.

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Apr 10, 2018

So part of what comes to mind is the length of time 180 days and you have an employee maybe who goes through mediation and maybe somebody decides to leave on their own, they are not happy in the office.

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Apr 10, 2018

So right now you have a contractor who is doing that part-time and that is going to be a full-time, plus a part-time contractor, or is that part-time contractor going to be full-time?

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Apr 10, 2018

I can certainly appreciate it because my staff is overstretched and we haven't seen except for security any raises or anything going in to our staff in that.

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Apr 10, 2018

And I think what we would save in the long run would be saving taxpayers money in the long run by doing this and getting through the list.

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