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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

Ready to Work does identify open jobs in a community and trains Americans to fill those jobs.

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Apr 4, 2017

I see I have no time left, but there are many questions I have--after school programs, Pell Grants.

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Apr 4, 2017

the teachers I represent were angered and demoralized after hearing your statements on public education.

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Apr 4, 2017

We cannot turn back the clock on lifesaving biomedical research.

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Apr 4, 2017

In 2015, opioids, including prescription drugs and illegal drugs such as heroin, killed more than 33,000 Americans, just surpassing death by firearms.

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Apr 4, 2017

There is no defending cutting thousands of research grants.

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Apr 4, 2017

Behavioral health, mental health, addiction treatment, is health, and it belongs in health care just as fixing a broken arm.

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Apr 4, 2017

Two thousand opioid, fatal overdoses in 2016, in Massachusetts, and it is trending very young.

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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

This proposal should be dead on arrival.

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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 was disappointed to see your budget request includes focus grants, which is, in essence, a $1 billion Title I portability proposal.

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