Ruben Hinojosa Quotes

• While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Believe

• We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

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  Topics in Country

• We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

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  Topics in Job

• Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

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  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Serious

• Today’s population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation’s history.

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  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Young

• There has been a growing consensus across the country – from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress – that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Growing

• The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Social, Debt

• The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Care

• Right now, America’s middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Needs

• One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Act

• It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Help

• If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

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  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Child, Law

• However, the Administration’s plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won’t make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Security, Social, Plan

• High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one’s life.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in High

• For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Schools

• Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins – the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weather, Quality

• Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government – and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Government

• At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.

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  Topics in Children, Education, Job

• As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously – and this information is of the utmost importance.

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  Topics in Health

• America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Topics in America, Future

Ruben Hinojosa (22)

Birth:	20th August, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Rubén E. Hinojosa is the U.S. House of Representative for Texas's 15th congressional district, serving since 1997. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district stretches from Hidalgo County along Rio Grande Valley northward to Dewitt, Goliad and Refugio counties, and includes the towns of Beeville, Alice, and Harlingen.

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