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When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.
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Immigration
Immigration Reform
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As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.
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Celebrate
Critical
Honor
Labor
Labor Day
Men And Women
Workers
Men Women Honor
Fought
Tirelessly
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We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, and I cannot wait to roll up my sleeves and get back to work.
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Brighter
Brighter Future
Sleeves
Future Work Opportunity
Work Future Opportunity
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We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don't need to be in conflict.
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Conflict
Gun
Owners
Second Amendment
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Lawful
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We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.
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Accurate
Planes
Precise
Radar
Relative
Seconds
Approximate
Locations
Positions
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Hillary Clinton has spent those decades before her time in public office and since her time in public office advocating for common sense measures to fight gun violence.
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Advocating
Clinton
Common Sense
Decades
Gun
Public Office
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Measures
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We've been having a lot of hearings lately about the reliability of the grid and the need for more distributive generation. We can be a leader of that here in Connecticut.
Elizabeth Esty /
Connecticut
Reliability
Grid
Lately
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I hear over and over again from local leaders and business owners that one of the best ways we can revitalize our cities and towns is to support brownfields cleanup efforts.
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Business Owners
Cities
Owners
Towns
Efforts
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There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.
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Causes
Effects
Federal Spending
Gun
No Reason
Public Health
Health Gun Violence
Prohibit
Studying
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The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.
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Credit
Income
Poisoning
Health Will Children
Ensure
Homes
Impacts
Regardless
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While we may not know how to stop these horrific mass shootings, we do know this: Limiting high-capacity magazines will save lives, and we know this because it has saved lives.
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Horrific
Magazines
Mass
Saved
Limiting
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I am proud to be named a Defender of Children by First Focus, and I will continue to call on Congress to enact comprehensive policies that improve the well-being of our children.
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Well Being
Named
Defender
Enact
Policies
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Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.
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Acknowledgment
Admiration
Deserve
Sacrifice
Ultimate
Ultimate Sacrifice
Veterans
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I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.
Elizabeth Esty /
American People
Demonstrate
Voices
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There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.
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Awakening
Cities
Enormous
Hook
Mass
Recognition
Related
Sandy
Day See Every Day
Day Every Day See
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I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to advance policies that level the playing field for American workers and incentivize investing in jobs here at home.
Elizabeth Esty /
Aisle
American Workers
Both Sides
Colleagues
Investing
Sides
Workers
Advance
Playing Field
Policies
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If elected members of any body - whether it's a state house or Congress - were not willing to take career-ending or at least election-losing votes, I would not have the right to vote today.
Elizabeth Esty /
Votes
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Unfortunately, this will have a ripple effect in the economy. People carrying heavy student-loan debt won't buy houses, start families, or start businesses. This will hurt the future economy.
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Heavy
Ripple
Carrying
Unfortunately
Houses
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Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to turn children into gun enthusiasts before they are even old enough to buy a firearm of their own.
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Blind
Eye
Gun
Marketing
Tragedy
Blind Eye
Buy
Turning
Clearly
Courting
Intended
Old Enough
Plainly
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Manufacturing is the backbone of Connecticut's economy, and suppliers such as Click Bond depend on partnerships with U.S.-based manufacturers that export many of their products with Ex-Im's backing.
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Connecticut
Suppliers
Backing
Bond
Click
Depend
Export
Manufacturers
Partnerships
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In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.
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Liberty
Lifetime
Prevail
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We know that school readiness programs work, and the best ones work extraordinarily well. They are effective in reducing the achievement gap, which in Connecticut is among the highest in the country.
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Achievement
Connecticut
Readiness
Reducing
Best Work Know
Effective
Extraordinarily
Gap
Programs
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There are things that matter more than your election. That may take difficult votes, may take career-ending votes for people, but if we aren't willing to do that, then we're not going to move forward.
Elizabeth Esty /
Election
May Your People
Move Forward
Votes
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In Connecticut, we have a vibrant history of advocating to ensure our workers are treated fairly and given the rights and protections they deserve. Still, we need to do more to protect all American workers.
Elizabeth Esty /
Advocating
American Workers
Connecticut
Deserve
Workers
Fairly
Ensure
Vibrant
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The TECH Careers Act will open the door for more Americans to have successful middle-class careers and help small businesses in Connecticut and across the country access a qualified pool of talented workers.
Elizabeth Esty /
Careers
Connecticut
Pool
Qualified
Workers
Talented
Tech
Small Businesses
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We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.
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Checks
Combat
Dedicated
Expanding
Gun
Health Services
Mental Health
Strategy
Trafficking
Criminal
Sales
Services
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Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.
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Crisis
Elementary School
Gun
Hook
Public Health
Sandy
Tragedy
Elementary
Epidemic
Manmade
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Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our schools, no place in our parks, no place on our streets, no place in our communities, and no place in this country.
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Ammunition
Devices
One Time
Parks
Rounds
Streets
Time People Country
Communities
Time Country People
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From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.
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Advocating
Congress
Focused
Liquid
Nutrition
Poisoning
Valuable
Invest
Efforts
Fully
Programs
Protecting
Resource
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We owe it to our service men and women and their families, who sacrificed so much for our country, to find out the answers they deserve and make care and treatment for them, their children, and their grandchildren a priority.
Elizabeth Esty /
Deserve
Grandchildren
Men And Women
Treatment
Men Women Service
Women Men Service
Owe
Sacrificed
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We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.
Elizabeth Esty /
Gun
Respond
Epidemic
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We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.
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Anger
Common
Consumed
Energy
Grief
Honor
Humanity
Love Anger Fear
Channel
Otherwise
San
Surrounding
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Cities and towns throughout central and northwest Connecticut have strong industrial histories and are now in the process of transitioning into new sources of economic growth. I'm doing what I can to be a strong partner in these efforts.
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Cities
Connecticut
Economic Growth
Towns
Central
Efforts
Histories
Industrial
Northwest
Partner
Sources
Transitioning
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Although we can never fully repay our veterans, on Veterans Day we thank our veterans for their selflessness and commit to do what we can to improve the quality of life for our veterans and military families in communities across America.
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Quality
Commit
Military
Quality Of Life
Selflessness
Across
Although
Communities
Fully
Repay
Thank
Veterans
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E-cigarette companies are using shameful tactics, such as Joe Camel-like cartoons in advertisements and creating e-cigarette flavors like bubblegum and cotton candy, to addict our children early - and guarantee another generation of smokers.
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Addict
Candy
Cotton
Creating
Shameful
Smokers
Advertisement
Cartoons
Companies
Flavors
Generation
Guarantee
Joe
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We need to close the tax loopholes that have awarded companies moving out of the country and overseas; we need a government that will keep our country safe from terrorists at home and abroad... and a government that is responsive to the needs of the people.
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Loopholes
Moving Out
Abroad
Awarded
Overseas
Responsive
Terrorists
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Today, I heard directly from Connecticut workers about the importance of strong, predictable federal research funding and how the federal government can be a better partner in spurring innovation and helping life-saving medication reach families who need it most.
Elizabeth Esty /
Connecticut
Federal Government
Funding
Helping
Importance
Innovation
Life Saving
Medication
Predictable
Workers
Directly
Partner
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This historically has been an issue that both parties have run away from. For the first time, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in its platform are making this issue, about needing to do better as a country to take common sense steps to help prevent gun violence.
Elizabeth Esty /
Clinton
Common Sense
Democratic Party
Gun
Steps
Time Better Country
Both Parties
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Historically
Needing
Parties
Platform
Prevent
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