WASHINGTON – Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) has introduced legislation (H. Con. Res. 232) to honor the Army’s 24th Infantry Division and its 14 Medal of Honor recipients through a memorial marker at Arlington National Cemetery.
This legislation was spurred by Amherst resident Salvatore Schillaci, who is the Vice President of the 24th Infantry Division’s tribute association. [...]

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) commented on President Obama’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress:
“I appreciated President Obama coming to the Capitol this evening to address Congress and the American people on the vast number of issues facing our great nation. Unfortunately, one year removed from the President’s historic [...]

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) attended an auction at the Bureau of the Public Debt yesterday to witness exactly how our $12.3 trillion debt is being auctioned off to foreign countries and individuals. The auction featured $10 billion of our national debt being auctioned off as a 4-week Treasury bill. According to records held [...]

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) today signed on to legislation calling for health care discussions to be open and available for public viewing. Leaders in Congress have signaled their desire to keep negotiations behind closed doors and away from Western New York taxpayers.
“I share Western New Yorkers’ frustration with the way Washington operates, and [...]

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(A press release from Congressman Chris Lee)
Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) today highlighted bipartisan legislation he and several colleagues recently introduced to incentivize making energy efficiency improvements to homes and small businesses. H.R. 4226, the Expanding Building Efficiency Incentives Act, will reduce energy costs for families and small businesses, promote innovation and conservation, and create future [...]

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WASHINGTON – Western New York Representatives Chris Lee (NY-26), Brian Higgins (NY-27), Louise Slaughter (NY-28) today sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt urging him to implement much-needed guidelines on pilot fatigue and pilot commuting. During a recent Senate hearing the FAA Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety Peggy Gilligan announced that [...]

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(A press release from Congressman Chris Lee)
Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) announced that his office will be collecting non-perishable food items to donate to Rochester Foodlink. The food collection drive will begin on Monday, November 30 and run through Monday, January 4, 2010. Members of the community wishing to donate items may bring them to Congressman [...]

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WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY) and Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY) introduced legislation (H.R. 4117) to eliminate all hauling costs for milk producers in an effort to protect dairy farmers from paying unfair fees to milk processors. Arcuri and Lee introduced this legislation to alleviate the financial crisis that many local, Western New York [...]

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) voted last evening to enact meaningful reforms to America’s health care system while not raising taxes or adding to the national deficit. The lawmaker expressed his opposition to a government-run, taxpayer-funded health care proposal that unfairly targets small businesses with burdensome mandates, does not include meaningful liability reform and [...]

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) today returned from Afghanistan, where he visited Bagram and Kandahar Air Bases and toured the village of Nawa located in the volatile Helmand province.
While there Congressman Lee met with troops and commanders fighting on the front lines and carrying out the President’s counterinsurgency strategy announced in March. Lee was [...]

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