Kathleen Rice: “If you take away the budget of the State Department and you decimate that, then I am just going to have to buy more…”

How can we create or encourage a more holistic approach to disaster relief that improves intergovernmental coordination?

This tragedy hit home for one of our former colleagues, former Congressman Rick Nolan, who lost his daughter Katherine to lung cancer even though she did not smoke.

I have seen the havoc that is wreaked in communities and among broken families. And it is just a terrible, preventable crime.

Even before the pandemic, communities in my district and across New York were reeling from a spate of anti-Semitic attacks.