Announcing District Wins. U.S. REP. JAKE AUCHINCLOSS.

 Last week, the House passed its annual appropriations package in a “minibus” that included key wins for the Fourth District, including of my Community Project Funding (CPF) requests. 

The Massachusetts Fourth, from Fall River to Brookline, is a powerhouse of talent and work ethic. From the life sciences to education to clean energy, we are innovators and builders. But for too long we have lacked the infrastructure we need to fully thrive. The investments included in this package will make our towns stronger and will lower costs for working families. They will make our water cleaner, our future greener, and our children healthier.

District Projects Included in Passage: 

•  Labor-HHS-Ed Project: Manet Community Health Center Satellite Clinic in Attleboro 

                     Amount of Request: $500,385 Amount Received: $500,000 

•  Labor-HHS-Ed Project: Bristol Community College’s National Offshore Wind Institute 

                   Amount of Request: $2,000,000 Amount Received: $2,000,000 

•  Homeland Project: Somerset Emergency Dam Improvements 

                 Amount of Request: $1,130,000 Amount Received: $975,000 

•  Homeland Project: North Attleborough’s Ten-Mile River Dredging Project to Mitigate Flooding 

              Amount of Request: $1,500,000 Amount Received: $1,500,000 

•  THUD Project: New Hope New Domestic Violence Shelter 

           Amount of Request: $2,000,000 Amount Received: $2,000,000 

•  THUD Project: City of Fall River Urban Renewal Plan Parking Lot and Facility Improvements

            Amount of Request: $1,500,000 Amount Received: $1,500,000

•  Interior Project: Town of Medway for Central Water Treatment Facility Improvements 

           Amount of Request: $2,750,000 Amount Received: $2,750,000 

•  Interior Project: Norton Water and Sewer Department for Source Water Well Replacement Project 

          Amount of Request: $1,475,000 Amount Received: $1,475,000 

•  Interior Project: Town of Plainville for Water System Capacity Expansion 

           Amount of Request: $1,500,000 Amount Received: $1,500,000 

•  Interior Project: Town of Hopedale for Water Supply and Storage Enhancement Project 

          Amount of Request: $2,000,000 Amount Received: $2,000,000


Additional Fourth District Wins: 

Housing 
I successfully advocated for an increase in funding to $100 million for the HUD Housing Counseling Assistance program. The Housing Counseling program provides assistance to first-time homebuyers before purchasing, homeless prevention counseling, and reverse mortgage counseling for seniors. Specifically to help our aging population, I secured  $1.03 billion for the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program. 

Part of affordable housing is affordable home construction. Unfortunately, the cost to build homes has continued to increase. Factory-built housing can be built to the same high-quality standards as stick-built housing, but artificial barriers prevent widespread usage. The Democrats’ appropriations bill directs HUD to complete a study that measures the regulatory barriers to factory-built housing and the impacts they have on communities. I drafted this  language, and successfully advocated for its inclusion in the House bill.  

Safer Streets & Strong Towns
As a member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, I am a champion of bikeable, walkable streets and additional investments in innovative public transportation options. The House Democrats’ spending bill incorporated my language to encourage municipalities to design streets in a safer, multimodal way, and to incorporate Massachusetts’ “Complete Streets” model into design and retrofits.

Clean Energy & Environmental Protection
I worked with my colleagues in the New England delegation to secure funding for renewable energy, clean water, and clean air. This included securing $7.5 million to support Southern New England Estuaries’ mission of preserving the ecological health of southeastern New England’s estuaries, watersheds, and coastal waters. Also to address the threat of climate change, I successfully advocated for a three-fold increase in EPA funding for Global Climate Change Research Programs. Finally, to develop new, renewable energy sources, I secured nearly $700 million for Department of Energy research into fusion energy.

Job Training
In Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District, 13,000 youth and 78,000 adults are eligible to receive federally funded job training . In 2020, the district received $1.9 million in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult and Youth State Grants.

House Democrats’ appropriations bill provides $3.1 billion in WIOA funds for job training for disadvantaged youth and adults, and for assistance to dislocated workers, an 8.8 percent increase over 2021.

This increase would provide $151,000 in additional WIOA funds for job training in the district. The additional funds support middle class and working families by helping youth and adults obtain good-paying jobs. 

Public Education
In Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District, an estimated 13,000 children benefited from federal Title I education funding in 2021 , including 8,000 children living in poverty, receiving monthly Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) , or in foster care. In 2021, the district received $13.5 million in Title I funds.

House Democrats’ appropriations bill provides $36 billion in Title I funds, a 118 percent increase over 2021.

This increase would provide $15.9 million in additional funding for schools in the district to support these children at risk of failing out of school. 

I successfully advocated for an additional $3 billion to be invested in child care, Head Start and Early Head Start programming nation-wide.

Veterans’ Health Care
In Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District, there were 10,000 veterans signed up to receive health care from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in 2020. The VHA spent $145 million in 2020 providing health care to 8,000 veterans in the district.

House Democrats’ appropriations bill provides $98.5 billion for veterans’ health care, an 8 percent increase over 2021.

This increase would provide an additional $32.0 million in funding for veterans’ health care in the district. These additional funds will enable the VHA to improve access to health care in key areas like women’s health, mental health, and opioid treatment; provide more veterans with home and community-based services; recruit and retain nurses and physicians; and support crucial medical research that improves veterans’ health and quality of life.

I also successfully advocated for Veterans Suicide Prevention Outreach Programs to be nearly doubled in funding, securing a total of $600 million for the program nationwide.

Biomedical Research
I championed record-level funding for biomedical research in the House Democrats’ appropriations bill, which will strengthen Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District as a life sciences hub. The bill includes $3.4 billion in NIH Alzheimer’s Disease research funding, $7 billion for the National Cancer Institute and $2.2 billion for Community Health Centers.

Onwards,

 

Jake Auchincloss
Member of Congress

Tax the rich. Fund the Green New Deal. democrats.com

 

DAVID - Recently Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, shot himself into space. And a few days before that Richard Branson, another billionaire, did the same thing. Billionaires like Bezos and Branson have so much money that they’re financing their own private space flights. And they’re only able to do so because of a rigged economy, on the backs of working people. Meanwhile, we’re suffering through a climate disaster. Wildfires so big and intense that they darken skies thousands of miles away. Heat waves so destructive that they are literally melting infrastructure. The solution to our climate crisis is staring us in the face: we need Congress to tax billionaires like Bezos and Branson and fund the Green New Deal. If you agree, will you add your name? Together, we’re building the grassroots and political power we need to make this vision a reality. The Green New Deal Network is a coalition of grassroots organizations, labor unions, and climate and environmental justice groups working to build a movement to create millions of family-sustaining union jobs, ensure racial and gender equity, and take action on the climate crisis at the scale and scope that it demands. The need for a Green New Deal for all people has never been so urgent. It's time we invest in and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create millions of good, union jobs while tackling the climate crisis. And it’s time for people like Bezos and Branson to pay their fair share so we can make that happen. If they can afford to fund personal space flights, then they can afford to fund a Green New Deal. But we need you with us to make that happen. Will you add your name and join the thousands of other activists in telling Congress to tax billionaires and fund the Green New Deal? Thank you, The Green New Deal Network PAID FOR BY THE GREEN NEW DEAL NETWORK Democrats.com is the original online news and community site for progressive activists, with over 7 million supporters. We stand for jobs, justice, healthcare, education, the environment, and peace. We're supported by great progressive partners so we never ask for donations. Please join us at Democrats.com!

BLAST FROM THE PAST: SATURDAY, AUGUST, 29, 2020 TRUMP SHOWS THE WORLD...

...THAT LIES, IGNORANCE, RACISM, AN UNEDUCATED POPULACE, AND PROTECTING HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS IS THE 2020 REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

AP fact check: Trump distorts record, BLM falsely accused: https://aol.it/32Cy6Ao via@AOL.

U.S. SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS CONTINUES HER ROLE AS A TRUMP APOLOGIST.

Susan Collins says on CNN that she thinks it was wrong for Pelosi to pick which Republicans serve on the Jan 6 committee, suggests she wasn't troubled by the idea of material witness Jim Jordan serving on it because "there were many communications with President Trump" on Jan 6th.

YOU REMEMBER SENATOR COLLINS, DON'T YOU? HERE SHE IS SPREADING "WISDOM" ABOUT BRETT KAVANAUGHS NOMINATION TO THE SCOTUS.

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REMEMBERING TRUMP. PAST POSTS THAT REMIND US OF THE "REAL DONALD TRUMP.": JUDGE KAVANAUGH- LISTEN TO THE RESPONSE. UPDATE: A TRUMP MINION DEFENDS...

...and we're stuck with three of these "JUDICIAL JOKES," APPOINTED COURTESY OF DER FUHRER DONALD, FASCIST TRUMPIANS, AND COWARDLY TRUMPOCRATS.

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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said the following, to explain her "REASONING" IN SUPPORTING JUDGE KAVANAUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT:

"In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be," she said. "We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy."

HOWEVER, JUDGE KAVANAUGH GETS A FREE PASS FROM THIS:

" Revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups. This is a circus. The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The consequences will be with us for decades."

I GUESS HIS ACCUSERS ARE HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD THAN HE IS.

THAT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF REPUBLICAN HATE SPEECH BEING PROTECTED BY ONE OF DONALD TRUMPS MINIONS...

...AND THE MINION IS SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS.

THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM JUDGE KAVANAUGHS TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, REGARDING ACCUSATIONS MADE AGAINST HIM.

"This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about president trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record. Revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups. This is a circus. The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The consequences will be with us for decades."

WHAT CAN WE TAKE FROM THIS?

#1. Anger-  Does this reference the Unconstitutional denial of President Barack Obamas choice for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, a chance to testify before the Senate, to be followed by a public vote? 

BUT YOU'RE BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY. REALLY?

#2. President Trump and the 2016 Election- You mean an election with Bogus Returns in at least 6 States that handed Donald Trump the White House, paving the way for him placing 3 Judges on the Supreme Court.

Do you mean "FEAR" of having the future course of Judicial Precedents decided by DONALD TRUMP, whose behavior while in the WHITE HOUSE is often considered to be IRRATIONAL AND VINDICTIVE? 

#3. Revenge on behalf of the Clintons- I assume you have the facts to back this up, since this is a direct accusation. Also, Do you mean that the Clintons planned and executed these plans directly, or are unwitting pawns that had no knowledge about the attempt to create this "Circus"?

IS THIS HOW A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY?