Marty Meehan

Marty Meehan
Martin Thomas "Marty" Meehanis the current President of the University of Massachusetts, a position he assumed on July 1, 2015. A Democrat, Meehan served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2007 as the representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district, and as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 2007 to 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.
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The cleanest way to have an election is to have money that doesn't come from special interests, ... In the long run it's a much better system. The system is better served if you put limits on what people can spend.
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Make no mistake about it, these cleverly disguised provisions will torpedo key disclosure requirements for so-called 'stealth PACS.'
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At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.
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Too many of our brave men and women, our heroes, are falling through the cracks,
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The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.
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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
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We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
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Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
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What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.
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It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
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I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
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As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
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Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.