Tim Bishop
Tim Bishop
Timothy Howard "Tim" Bishopis the former U.S. Representative for New York's 1st congressional district, serving from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 June 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.
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Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.
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This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
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The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.
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The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
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As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]
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Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should provide resources as needed, and it should make it clear to the authorities in Belgrade that inaction does have repercussions on bilateral relations.
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We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.
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While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.
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This really disappoints me because of how well our students have done on the standardized tests, ... It frustrates me there was a data problem.
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Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
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Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.
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In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.
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For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.