03/09/2011
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"I appreciate your Department honoring my request and that of Governor Cuomo and some of my House and Senate colleagues, to take a second look at the designation."
"I look forward to working with my colleagues on the Committee and the secretary to continue to review the president's budget request."
"While our economy is in recovery, some of our fellow citizens are being left behind."
"It is true that my district has experienced the one--what do they say, once-in-100-year storms twice in the last 2 years, with Hurricane Irene and Sandy."