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Moms Crucial to Communities
May 13, 2012
Editorial
community leaders and elected officials, presidents of hospitals, companies, community colleges and universities. My own background as a working mom, now with grown children and grandchildren, underscores the commonality of the motherhood experience. I remember what it was like to balance the challenges of rearing children while juggling a myriad of other responsibilities. My daughter and daughter-in-law are a different kind of mom than I was, and I was different from my mother and her mother before her. For my 90-year-old mother, the child of Italian immigrants, blogging her parenting activities or coaching her child's soccer team would be completely foreign.
Rep. Buerkle Statement on Recent Attacks in Afghanistan
May 11, 2012
Press Release
Earlier today, an assailant wearing an Afghan Army uniform opened fire on American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, killing one service member before escaping. According to NATO, today’s deadly shooting marked the 15th incident this year in which attackers wearing Afghan military uniforms have turned on their coalition counterparts, resulting in 20 NATO deaths. “The quickening pace of shootings on coalition soldiers by assailants wearing Afghan Army uniforms is cause for great concern. The killings are complicating NATO’s efforts to train Afghan soldiers and causing tension between Afghanistan and its Western allies.
Buerkle Supports the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act
May 10, 2012
Press Release
Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25), Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and United States Congressional Representative to the United Nations, today voted in favor of H.R. 4133, the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012. Rep. Buerkle released the following statement regarding the legislation, which she cosponsored. “I want to thank my colleagues from both sides of the aisle for their strong support of this legislation, which affirms the importance of our relationship with Israel.
TSA Wasting Taxpayer Dollars
May 10, 2012
Press Release
The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee (T&I) and Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (OGR), of which Representative Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-25) is a member, released a report that demonstrated the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars inefficiently deploying screening equipment and technology to commercial airports. “This report is evidence that TSA is a flawed agency and is wasting the taxpayers’ money. TSA has repeatedly failed to effectively procure and deploy screening equipment that actually detects threats.
