Sherwood Boehlert
Sherwood Boehlert
Sherwood "Sherry" Louis Boehlertis a retired American politician from New York. He represented upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007. Boehlert, a Republican, was considered to be a member of the party's moderate wing. He served as Chairman of the Science Committee from 2001 to 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 September 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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Without a doubt, the biggest beneficiaries of this bill will be the American consumers. They are sick and tired of paying skyrocketing prices for gasoline. They want relief,
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Our voice is being listened to now more than it has in the past.
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Judd Road was very important in going forward with Consumer Square and The Orchard,
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We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.
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We need to put together a full picture of the actual risks and costs of the space shuttle before deciding whether and how the program should be run.
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NASA cannot use aeronautics and science as a piggy bank to fund human space flight.
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To learn nothing and do nothing would be delinquent,
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The question Congress and the administration will still have to grapple with most is not the nature or desirability of the exploration architecture, but rather its timing,
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The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.
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I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.
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Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
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The decisions we make in the next few months will affect the future of the space program for decades to come, ... They need to be made deliberately. That's the proper way to honor the memories of the Columbia crew.
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I am extremely uneasy about this budget. This budget is bad for space science, worse for Earth science and possibly worse for aeronautics.
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There is simply not enough money in NASA's budget to carry out all the tasks it's undertaking on the current schedule.