Brian Higgins
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Brian Michael Higgins is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 26th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Higgins has focused on issues such as healthcare, economic development, and infrastructure throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for the Buffalo-Niagara region, working to secure federal funding for local projects and initiatives.
The reality is that the tax cuts that our colleagues on the other side embraced didn't do anything to grow the economy.
In March, the House passed and President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan. This bill expanded the child tax credit in an unprecedented way. Experts predict that this expansion will cut childhood poverty in this country by one…
It has been 395 days since the United States-Canadian border closed, and the closure was just extended another 30 days. Families on both sides of the border have been torn apart. People who love each other, parents, and grandchildren are…
We have a great opportunity here to rebuild the infrastructure of our country, but we also have an obligation, more so than anything else, to help those underserved communities that have been devastated by decades of expressway building.
We need to start thinking about what a post-pandemic world looks like and how we can renew and rebuild.
I am very optimistic about the $20 billion that is in the infrastructure bill to restore neighborhoods.
We need more parks. We need more parkways. We need more pedestrian and bicycle access so that everybody will have access to good parks, and the healing power of parks and parkways that these expressways destroyed so many years ago.
But infrastructure decisions can sometimes hurt, not heal. It can tear our communities apart.
Federally qualified health centers are located in neighborhoods, connecting to people where they live and where families today are struggling. Health centers in my western New York community--Neighborhood Health Center, Community Health…





