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July 16, 2012
Middle class families deserve to be heard in Congress – heard and listened to. They deserve to know that the programs their families rely on, from Pell Grants, to Medicare, to Social Security, will continue to be there for them. They deserve a democracy that lives up to the one they were promised, one that is “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” – a democracy where everyone is equal at that ballot box. But in 2010, the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision opened the floodgates of unlimited, secret spending in our elections – and we have watched as secret funding...
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June 9, 2011
Our kids don’t deserve asthma. They deserve clean air. They deserve the chance to play outdoors. But kids don’t get to pick how clean their air is…and in my state, Rhode Island, where air pollution is high, more than 1 out of every 10 has asthma. The truth is we live downwind from other states whose air-polluting smokestacks – some as tall as the Empire State building – dump pollution onto Rhode Island and expose our kids to air toxins every day. Indeed, yesterday was a "bad air day" in Rhode Island for that reason. This means our kids are risking exposure to toxins like mercury, which has...
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