Pat Ryan: “CBO projects economic growth will remain sluggish and the unemployment rate to hover near 9 percent through 2014.”

Hudson Valley farmers keep our community fed, and the harsh weather this year has decimated their crops.

the fact that zero dollars from this huge, multibillion-dollar plan are going to go to improve service to my constituents is incredibly frustrating, and, I think, a significant public policy failure.

For months, I’ve been pushing at every level to help secure this official Disaster Designation, which will now unlock millions of dollars in emergency loans and resources to help our farmers and growers begin to recover.

There are American troops in harms way, right now. Of course, this is about Hegseth, but it's really about our men and women in uniform who are willing to put their life on the line. They deserve better than this.