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" A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems. "
Transportation
New York
New
" Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country. "
Way
Cost-Effective
Country
" As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations. "
I Am
Personal
Service
" For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have. "
Economic
Activity
Variety
" Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low. "
Been
Low
Reason
" Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy. "
Buy
Products
Down
" However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation. "
Will
Budget
Problem
" In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages. "
Rise
People
Real
" Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. "
People
Inflation
Others
" In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. "
Security
Long
Important
" In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age. "
Time
Science
Growth
" Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back. "
Down
Ignored
Important
" Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. "
Race
Religion
Resistance
" Real economic stimulus comes from real investment. "
Stimulus
Real
Investment
" The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people. "
Move
People
America
" The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected. "
Sound
Island
Long Island
" The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it. "
Society
Terrible
Jobs
" There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession. "
Recession
Losses
Nature
" The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers. "
Long
Life
Island
" This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage. "
Work
Congress
Leadership
" Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either. "
Will
Products
Lost
" Transportation spending is a win-win proposition. "
Spending
Win-Win
Transportation
" We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care. "
Job
Health
Care
" We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. "
Island
Need
Violence
" We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated. "
Will
Clear
Crime
" While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. "
Tax
Day
Taxes
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