In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.
You draw a district for that particular minority – African American, Asian, Hispanic – so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don’t decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
Democrats like Congressman Elijah Cummings say they care about how migrants are treated at the border. What about the families and people in their own district?
You know, I got the third most uninsured district in the whole state of Texas, probably number nine in the whole country. As a Blue Dog, I’m also looking at the cost. So, I have got a very unique district.
Human connection is the way things work. It’s like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it’s okay.
Texas’ and America’s farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.
I want to fight hard for the values and priorities of my district.
There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.
In my district, I have a very clear mandate to work across the aisle.
Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.
I spent my first five years in Canberra then moved to Sydney, where I moved around the Hills District until the age of 18.
I will keep working with both parties in the House to get things done for people in our District.
A lot of times, you’re just so determined to get everything that you’re going to vote ‘no’ if you don’t. But if you get 75% of what you want and what your district wants, you should be satisfied with that.
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings – art is much more ingrained in the culture.
I wasn’t elected to avoid conflict. I was elected to represent the people of the 2nd District.
The people in my district don’t call me ‘congressman’ – doesn’t matter how old they are, they call me ‘Jack.’ They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.
In my district, energy means family-supporting jobs and cutting-edge science.
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn’t even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
We have a wonderful district with lots of fun little stores and companies and farms.
After speaking with community leaders, faith leaders, and voters across the District during my campaign, I came to understand that visiting Israel was necessary to obtain a full and proper perspective on our relationship with our strongest ally in the Middle East.
I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.
U.S. attorneys have taught me a lot over the years, and in the Southern district of Florida, they have been to me partners.
I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
When we talk about public education, we don’t worry about a district. We don’t focus on an individual school or a building when we talk about education. We talk about kids and what’s best for kids. It doesn’t matter what’s best for the adults; what matters is what’s best for the individual kids.
Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.
I work every weekend in my district.
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis’s Head Start Program provides child development and comprehensive wellness services in a safe and nurturing environment. The program is a pillar of our community in Missouri’s First District.
I grew up in the Mission District in San Francisco, which was largely Hispanic at the time. I was raised in a household that was really welcoming to diversity and encouraging about different people’s viewpoints and ideas and backgrounds.
I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.
I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.
In my home district, exports support more than 100,000 jobs. Imagine how many more jobs we can create by breaking down the barriers that prevent Chicago-made goods and services from entering new markets.
When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.
I spent several months patrolling Al Dora district in Baghdad in 2006 with the 101st Airborne. It’s a tough neighborhood. There’s a lot of militias operating there, including a lot of Shiite militias, which are backed by Iran.
I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today’s victory on the House floor.
In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
‘District 9’, ‘Elysium’ and ‘Chappie’ were all born out of some visual concept first. ‘Chappie’ is the imagery, because I think I’m a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It’s much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.
I come from a small village in Gurdaspur district.
Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can’t vote.
I figured there’s nobody who’s going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can’t help if people don’t like me up there in Washington. I’ve got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me.
Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
Sen. Clinton carried our district, and it is difficult to vote against your constituents.
I’m opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I’m launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.
I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.
There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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.
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
I think we’ve been the selection just because I think I’ve earned it by doing a lot of things for the district.
Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.
Terre Haute. They used to call it ‘Terrible Hut’ because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can’t name a gangster that didn’t come into the place where I worked.
