Tim Bishop

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.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

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.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

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.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

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.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.