Carolyn B. Maloney: “Savas Tsivicos is a proud American who has not forgotten his roots. He is imbued with determination to bring justice and…”

I've known him for 20 years, and he's always been a champion of the middle class and working for economic opportunities and for jobs for working men and women.

The restorations come at the expense of direct- graduate- medical- education funding. This means that teaching hospitals in my state will be deprived of $100 to $130 million dollars over 5 years.

I am asking for no specific amount of money, nor to direct disease-specific research.

I salute Mr. Savas Tsivicos and the work of the officers and friends of the Panpaphian Association of America.