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Nita Lowey

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Nita M. Lowey was a prominent Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative for New York's 17th congressional district from 1999 until 2021. She was the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee, a position she held from 2019 to 2021, where she played a crucial role in shaping federal budgetary decisions and funding allocations. Throughout her tenure, Lowey was known for her advocacy on issues such as healthcare, education, and women's rights, and she worked to secure funding for various programs benefiting her constituents and communities across the nation.

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Apr 4, 2017

These cuts would decimate biomedical research and the economy.

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Apr 4, 2017

I am deeply concerned by the President's elimination of these protections.

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Apr 4, 2017

Education for me is probably one of our most important responsibilities if we are going to have a workforce that is strong, healthy.

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Apr 4, 2017

It would siphon money from public schools to pay for private school vouchers, eliminate more than 22 education investments, including teacher training and after school programs, leaving 1.6 million children without a safe enrichment…

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Apr 4, 2017

I am extremely disappointed that your budget proposes to take funding from public education and transfer it to private schools.

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Apr 4, 2017

Given the security implications of having a President present, are you relooking at the issuance of visas for what the President deems his winter White House?

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Apr 4, 2017

I am very upset with the 24 percent cut requested by the Trump administration, because it will result in more human suffering and more lives lost that could have been saved.

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Apr 4, 2017

But your budget cuts the core workforce development programs by a staggering 40 percent.

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Apr 4, 2017

Why should the American people pay for an unnecessary border wall while cutting funding for worker training and apprenticeship programs?

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Apr 4, 2017

If you are age 25 to 34, one-third of all deaths in that age group are opioid fatal overdoses.

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Apr 4, 2017

This proposal should be dead on arrival.

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Apr 4, 2017

The Trump administration's budget proposal, however, would eliminate that entire amount in just 1 year by cutting $8,000,000,000 from the NIH.

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