Chaka Fattah
Chaka Fattah
Chaka Fattahis the former U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district, serving from 1995 until his resignation in 2016. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Pennsylvania Senate and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 November 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
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I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
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Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
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There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
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But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
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We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.
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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
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Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
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Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
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Well, first of all, one word you will not hear this administration use when they talk about the budget is a simple word called balance.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
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The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
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At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.
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The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.