Joe Crowley

I urge anybody in the New York metropolitan area these next couple of weeks to get out to Queens and experience this celebration of Latino culture.

This summer Queens Theatre in the Park will present the 3rd Latino Arts Festival to celebrate the contributions of Latino and Latin American artists to the cultural life of Queens and the greater New York metropolitan area.

as a freshman congressman representing the financial capital of the U.S., I rise today in support of H.R. 10. Madam Chairman, currently our financial services industry is governed by outdated laws and regulations which are costly and…

Clearly this amount is woefully inadequate when compared to the current high costs of housing faced by the residents of New York.

while I believe that H.R. 833 is an important step towards ending the abuse and restoring responsibility to our nation's bankruptcy system, I believe that the effectiveness of this legislation could be improved by adjusting the homestead…

I believe that the effectiveness of this legislation could be improved by adjusting the homestead exemption for bankruptcy filers to more adequately reflect the current costs of housing in the United States.

while I think that H.R. 833 sets a reasonable cap on homestead exemptions at $250,000, I believe it is imperative that the homestead exemption for individuals and couples in New York be raised to sufficiently reflect the prevailing costs…

I believe that H.R. 833 is an important step towards ending the abuse and restoring responsibility to our nation's bankruptcy system.

in my home State of New York, the homestead exemption for individuals is just $10,000 while couples are limited to only a $20,000 exemption. Clearly this amount is woefully inadequate when compared to the current high costs of housing…

I believe it is imperative that the homestead exemption for individuals and couples in New York be raised to sufficiently reflect the prevailing costs of housing in New York.

Mr. Speaker, I introduced H. Con. Res. 54 with the intent to honor and celebrate as a Congress the one-year anniversary of the Good Friday Peace Accord and the involvement of the United States Senate majority leader, George Mitchell; our…

9 out of 10 Americans, 9 out of 10 Americans support campaign finance reform. Today, I rise in support of meaningful campaign finance reform which our political system needs and our constituents demand. I salute the Blue Dogs for once…

for the past decade, ethnic Albanians of Kosovo, a province of Serbia, the dominant republic of Yugoslavia, have fought a courageous campaign to regain the rights they had taken away by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic who in 1989…

just in closing, I want to thank my colleagues. We built these schools after World War II to take care of the G.I. men and women who came back after fighting that war. We built them then; we can build them now. I hope we will build them.

I thank my fellow freshman, the gentleman from Oregon. I will also note that it is coast-to-coast, this issue. From Astoria, Queens to Astoria, Oregon, we have a similar problem.

A great school; as well as the gentleman knows, also the school that graduated Paul Simon, the famous musician. Art Garfunkel as well.

I rise to speak about the educational needs of our children and about the poor facilities and overcrowding faced by schools in my district and districts all across this great country. Mr. Speaker, education needs to be our first priority…

I rise today in reluctant support of the measure before us today. While I support the goal of the legislation and compliment the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Chairman Shuster) and the ranking member, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr…