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Dec 12, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
BREAKING: House passes 2018 #FarmBill that maintains programs critical for Central Illinois farmers, strengthens agricultural research, and improves protections for organic products.
We’ve written a strong bill for our farmers, but 80% of this bill is SNAP. While there is a slight increase in employment and training, not every able-bodied adult will have access to this job training program like they would have under the House bill.
This is a missed opportunity, and if our economy is going to continue grow, we’re going to need to fill the jobs that are open. I hope Democrats in the House will set the election aside and make this a priority next year.

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Sep 24, 2020
Today is the 21st anniversary of my wife Shannon's last chemotherapy treatment after she was diagnosed and treated for colon cancer in 1999. Shannon - you are so courageous and the kids and I are so proud of you.
It's a day that we will all remember, a day of success much different than the day of her diagnosis just a little over six months before that. We were a young couple with a 2-year-old daughter and didn't know what the future held...
But because of the great American medical system and the research that was done at places like the NIH for years before my wife was diagnosed, she was able to get the surgery and treatment she needed to now celebrate this anniversary.
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Aug 20, 2020
It’s ridiculous for @SenatorDurbin to suggest that my support for @USPS is recent, when he says I’m advocating for them now because I’m “getting an earful from constituents.” Yes, I am speaking out now, but I’ve been a USPS advocate for years.
Over 3 months ago, I sent a letter to leaders of my own party urging them to include federal assistance to USPS, including the $25 billion appropriation that’s now being discussed, in additional COVID-19 relief legislation. You can find that letter here: bit.ly/34hFqE1
I’ve co-sponsored H.R. 2382, the USPS Fairness Act, which passed the House on a bipartisan basis this past February. The bill would provide needed cash flow by repealing the mandate that USPS has to pre-fund future retirement benefits.
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Jun 26, 2020
My statement on the House Democrats' partisan approach to police reform:

I am fully supportive of enacting police reform at the federal level, but the partisan process Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer have chosen will not lead to police reform being enacted into law.
Democrats in the House refused to incorporate Republican input, while Democrats in the Senate declined many Republican offers to amend the JUSTICE Act. A partisan approach is the wrong approach.
The only way we will enact police reform is if Republicans and Democrats come together, resolve our differences, and come to bipartisan agreement. We can't let this moment pass us.
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Jan 28, 2020
As a staffer & now a Member, I’ve seen this committee work together to produce good, bipartisan federal highway bills, & I hope the tradition continues. Here are the principals @TransportGOP leader @RepSamGraves & I'd like to see in a highway bill: republicans-transportation.house.gov/news/documents…
@TransportGOP @RepSamGraves 1. Addressing the long-term sustainability of the Highway Trust Fund – continuing the status quo and relying on the fuel taxes as the primary source of funding for the Highway Trust Fund is not a long-term solution to the Trust Fund’s ongoing solvency issues.
@TransportGOP @RepSamGraves 2. Incorporating innovative developments in technology to improve our infrastructure – technological innovation has dramatic potential to increase transportation efficiency, improve safety and the environment, and create jobs. Our federal policies must better reflect this reality
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Jan 15, 2020
Soon I'll be speaking on my amendment to study the disproportionate impact age discrimination has on women in the workforce. Tune in to @cspan to watch: c-span.org/event/?468083/…
@cspan According to a 2018 report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), “women, especially older women, but also those at middle age, were subjected to more age discrimination than older men.”
In fact, some research suggests that ageism at work begins at age 40 for women, five years earlier than men. This is unacceptable, and we must find ways to correct the problem.
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Dec 5, 2019
Making sure those Christmas gifts 🎁get to you and our stores on time. We're talking about how to improve freight movement in the U.S. Tune in now!
The strength of our freight system, and Illinois’ position as the Nation’s premier freight hub, relies on a dependable system of highways, roads, and bridges. This is important because nearly every load of freight will be transported on a truck at some point in its journey.
Over the coming decades, demand for freight moved by truck is expected to increase significantly.
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