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has represented Connecticut’s 3rd congressional district since 1991. She previously served as the first Executive Director of EMILY’s List, Executive Director of Countdown ’87, the national campaign that successfully stopped U.S. military aid to the Nicaraguan Contras; and as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd.People are mobilizing for labor rights—with major strikes taking place across industries from entertainment to healthcare and more.
A safe workplace for women and for men. Caring deeply about collective bargaining and unions, which I believe brought men and women to the middle class in this country, the strength of collective bargaining. And the issues surrounding this piece is, you know, what motivates what I do in the legislation that I put forth on education. The daughter of immigrants who could truly only dare to dream that their daughter would sit in the United States Congress.
I’ve had the opportunity to chair the appropriations committee, and now to be ranking member and when we take back the House to run for chair again. So, you know, I didn’t come with a plan or a design to run for office. The circumstances and the environment that I was in moved me in this direction.
And so, what we need to do is to look at, if you will, and we can look at, utilizing the strength of this institution to make change in people’s life. And I’ll give you the most recent example for me, something I’ve worked on for, now, almost 20 years that’s the Child Tax Credit. And 18 years before it became part of the American Rescue Plan, it has worked the way no other federal program has worked in lifting kids out of poverty. So, we have that potential, that’s a silver lining.
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