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August 16, 2007

NEW YORK – Today Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez announced that she secured $2.6 million in federal funding for area medical centers, environmental projects, revitalization efforts, educational and youth programs. The funding was secured in the FY 2008 appropriations bills, which passed through the House of Representatives in July.


August 9, 2007

August 9, 2007

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July 20, 2007

NEW YORK – With the country moving into the fifth year of the conflict in Iraq and Americans, particularly New Yorkers, becoming increasingly frustrated with a war that has no end in sight, new legislation was introduced to end the fighting.


July 13, 2007

NEW YORK – Last evening, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1851 The Section 8 Housing Voucher Reform Act, which included an amendment introduced by Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.).


July 12, 2007

NEW YORK – Yesterday, Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) joined Members of Congress to pass H.R. 2669, the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007. The bill will provide the single largest investment in higher education since the GI bill, which was signed into law in 1944.


July 10, 2007

NEW YORK – Today Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez, a senior Member of the House Financial Services Committee, gave the following testimony during a Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity field hearing in New York on affordable housing preservation:


June 28, 2007

NEW YORK – Today Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez, joined with Mayor Bloomberg and other elected officials, in calling on the state legislature to reopen the Gansevoort Pier Marine Transfer Station in an effort to manage the distribution of New York City’s residential and recyclable waste, which has fallen disproportionately in Brooklyn.


June 28, 2007

Small Business Committee Bill Included to Support Innovations In the Energy Sector


June 26, 2007

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Velázquez (D-NY) announced the following earmark requests for FY 2008:


June 23, 2007

NEW YORK – Today, Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) joined area first and third graders, and their teachers at P.S. 94, the Long Fellow School in Brooklyn, as she introduced The Language Education for Success Act of 2007, a bill aimed at helping English Language Learners (ELL) and students throughout New York City.