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James R. Langevin is a former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, serving from January 3, 2001, to January 15, 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Langevin was the first quadriplegic to serve in the U.S. Congress, having been injured in a shooting accident at the age of 16. Throughout his tenure, he focused on issues such as cybersecurity, disability rights, and health care. Langevin served on several committees, including the House Armed Services Committee and the House Committee on Education and Labor.
I thank the gentleman. These technologies will not be, again, a replacement for kinetic defenses; but given the threats that we face in terms of raid sizes from adversaries on both short-, medium-, and long-range missiles, directed energy…
Impending budget cuts under sequestration pose a serious risk to America's leadership in a variety of areas. The one in particular that I want to focus on today is the serious risk to America's leadership on a clean-energy economy and to…
I hope that we will pay attention to that during this session of Congress to make sure that the Federal agencies have the resources they need to be able to deal with the consequences of Hurricane Sandy.
We need to take a look at the environmental impacts. There have been numerous oil spills as a result of Sandy that are having an impact on our environment.
We need to invest in those types of common sense ways that we can deal with the realities of severe weather.
Our first obligation now is to make sure the people who are affected and the communities that are affected, that we do what we can to bring them back to where they need to be.
I have introduced the Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act to provide funding to communities for projects such as reducing flooding in vulnerable communities.
I am going to be working with Governor O'Malley to make sure that the individuals who have been impacted by this storm have as strong a partner from the Federal Government as we can possibly have.
On rollcall 609, H.R. 5997, as amended, I was unavoidably detained and missed the vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________
November is National Family Caregivers Awareness Month, a time to honor the work of over 65 million family members who sacrifice every day to care for their loved ones with special needs. Whether they have a father with Alzheimer's or a…
I was unavoidably detained on rollcall No. 604. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
Let me be clear: I rank this failure alongside the Air Force's unauthorized shipments of nuclear weapons to Barksdale Air Force Base in 2007 and nuclear weapons components to Taiwan, which was reported in 2008.
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