Every company that comes into the office for appropriations, the first thing I ask is how many jobs are you going to bring to the 5th District that are not already there.
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My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate.
The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.
If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.
One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.
I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.
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