Sander Levin
Sander Levin
Sander Martin "Sandy" Levinis an American politician who has served in the United States House of Representatives since 1983, representing Michigan's 9th congressional district. Levin, a member of the Democratic Party from Michigan, is the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee; he was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee from 2010 to 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 September 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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Where is the action? Once again what we have the Treasury doing is talk and no action, and that hurts our manufacturers and our workers.
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I am convinced that a day-to-day, fully staffed, high-level commission, with its focus being human rights issues ... will be far more effective than our annual review,
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This commission is going to have two-thirds congressional membership. It is going to be up to us to make it work. Give it a chance.
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I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.
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Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.
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That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security.
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I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
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Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.
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You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.
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It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
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Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.
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The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.
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We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.
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My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.