Major Owens
Major Owens
Major Robert Odell Owenswas a New York politician and a prominent member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing the state's 11th Congressional district. He retired at the end of his term in January 2007 and was succeeded by Yvette Clarke...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 June 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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school technology together
Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
technology community tools
Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
ada firsts enforcement
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
self people competition
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
country giving people
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
issues long has-beens
Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
rights two people
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
eye cost host
He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.
technology years two
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
going-away world needs
We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
leadership exercise constant
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
home long incentives
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
teacher children moving
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
fuel gasoline income
High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.