Chris Jacobs

I think this is you know, this is really tipping the hand to the traditional school districts to the special interests kind of involved with the traditional school districts at the expense of trying to provide children and families who are…

You do agree that the Federal Government has a duty to ensure taxpayer dollars are not used for illegal harvesting of fetal tissue?

We have to make sure that no taxpayer dollars are used in ways that are not appropriate under the law.

If the tissue being used for this research was derived from aborted babies who were born alive and then killed by organ or tissue harvesting, would that be a violation of law?

We have too many workers in the childcare industry who are moving on because they could probably make more money flipping burgers than they could trying to care for your child or mine.

The reality is it is not free, and without some of the investments that the President has requested, especially in his Build Back Better proposal, it would be tough for us to be true partners as a Federal Government in helping our State…

Medicaid spending is in my mind, an unsustainable path, ballooning more than 360 percent over the last two decades.

This is an extreme burden, one reason our property taxes are so high, and why we're losing people and businesses in our region.

I think that is a great opportunity for us to seize, and rural broadband is key to that.

I agree with what has been said in terms of this time during COVID, highlighting our dependence on rural broadband or internet and that it is no longer an amenity but a necessity.

I would also say that a former colleague mentioned the opportunity I see here in terms of a rural renaissance and a small-town America renaissance through investment in high-speed internet.

I think unfortunately we will see in the years to come those communities, many of whom I represent in rural America, will have suffered more by the absence of being in the classroom because they did not have sufficient internet access at…

The Scaffold Law is estimated to add $10,000 to the cost of a single-family home in New York State.

Studies have indicated that the Scaffold Law adds approximately 8 to 10 percent to the cost of construction in New York State.

The Scaffold Law is particularly challenging for minority- and women-owned businesses, as the inflated premiums they must pay for liability insurance put them at a competitive disadvantage when bidding projects against larger firms.

For the sake of our roads, and our bridges, and our schools, our railroads, our homes, and all New Yorkers, the Scaffold Law must be reformed.

If $1 billion right now came in New York State and Federal taxpayer money through an infrastructure bill, 10 percent of that would be peeled off because of the Scaffold Law, $1 million would be essentially wasted.

Due to this absurd standard, it costs more to build in New York than anywhere else in the country.

This outdated law holds property owners and contractors fully liable for worksite accidents, regardless of the contributing fault of the worker.