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Dear neighbors,
Last week I traveled to the Middlesex County Mosquito Extermination Commission in Edison, NJ. There I heard from local and state officials, physicians and scientists, and those charged with regulating the mosquito population about the importance of combating the growing Zika crisis.
Nearly 2,000 Americans have contracted Zika in the United States with 80 of those cases now in New Jersey. The World Health Organization has declared Zika a global public health emergency, and the United States must meet this threat head on.
Next week change is finally coming to Washington. Over the last two years, the American people have heard a lot about change, but what exactly will that change be and what will it mean to our constituents?
Today, change begins here in the House. Today, we will vote on legislation that will strengthen the Children's Health Insurance Program so that we can ensure 11 million children have access to quality health care.
Today the House must act decisively and in bipartisan fashion to begin the process of rescuing an economy that has been spiraling downward for some time.
Without action, we are warned that credit markets will freeze up---preventing families from getting car and home loans, students from qualifying for college loans and small businesses from being able to pay their employees or purchase new products.
Congress responded quickly to the White House’s call for a financial rescue package. The White House should now join us in supporting a solid package for Main Street.
Last week Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and the stock market fell 500 points. Senator McCain's response---he declared that the fundamentals of the economy were strong.
As consumers' struggle to pay record prices at the pump, Big Oil is set once again to report another quarter of record profits.
While Americans suffer pain at the pump, Republicans and President Bush insist on the same old energy policies that put us on this dangerous path to record high gas prices.
Instead of looking towards the past, Democrats have been exploring both immediate and long-term solutions to America's energy crisis.
The American people are looking for real energy solutions that will bring down prices at the pump. Unfortunately, all they are getting from Washington Republicans are more of the same old policies that are actually responsible for the high gas prices in the first place.
For seven years Americans have endured the failed economic policies of President Bush---policies that have favored the wealthiest few and the big corporations at the expense of the middle class and those aspiring to reach the middle class.
Yesterday gas prices hit an average of $4-dollars-and-four-cents a gallon, a new historic high.