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Richard Edmund Neal is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district since 1989. The district, numbered as the 2nd district from 1989 to 2013, includes Springfield, West Springfield, Pittsfield, Holyoke, Agawam, Chicopee, and Westfield. A member of the Democratic Party, Neal has been the dean of Massachusetts's delegation to the United Sta…
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Born 14 February 1949 · Q1464697
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Ted has normal-people teeth because he is old and grew up before this part of the world got Facebooked. After that, the people with education fled to places like Ames, Des Moines, Iowa City. Which includes dentists. A few mainline churches used to run charity dental clinics where you could get a bad tooth pulled, or whatever, but those are being chased away by these people.
Career landmark: United States representative (2021).
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“Ted has normal-people teeth because he is old and grew up before this part of the world got Facebooked. After that, the people with education fled to places like Ames, Des Moines, Iowa City. Which includes dentists. A few mainline churches used to run charity dental clinics where you could get a bad tooth pulled, or whatever, but those are being chased away by these people.”
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News of the United States - NOTUS: Voters Are Ousting Longtime Incumbents. So Why Is No One Talking About Richard Neal? - News of the United States
The Guardian: The Manchester mayoral result holds the key for the future of progressive politics | Neal Lawson
Neal was among 49 Democrats to break with President Joe Biden, by voting for a ban on cluster munitions to Ukraine
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Career landmark: United States representative (2021).
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Neal was listed as an original co-sponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act
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Published video “Chairman Neal Opening Statement at Hearing on U.S.-China Trade”.
Published video “Neal Delivers Floor Remarks in Support of Legislation to Fund the Treasury Department and IRS”.
The House Ways and Means Committee led by Neal passed a bill that would prohibit the IRS from creating a free electronic tax filing system
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Career landmark: United States representative (2019–2021).
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Published video “Opening Floor Statement of Rep. Richard Neal On H. Con. Res. 119”.
Published video “Neal Opening Statement at Markup of Social Security and Pension Legislation”.
Published video “Neal Opening Statement at Markup of Health and Tax Legislation”.
Published video “Neal Floor Statement in Favor of H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act”.
Published video “Neal Speech Against HR 3, the Trump-GOP Rescissions bill”.
Published video “Congressman Richard E. Neal Speaks on the Republican's Balanced Budget Amendment”.
Published video “Neal Opening Statement at Hearing on the Effects of Tariff Increases on the U.S. Economy and Jobs”.
Published video “Ranking Member Neal Opening Statement at IRS Redesign, Trade and Social Security Markup”.
Neal backed the Israeli Anti-Boycott Act, aimed to punish companies that boycott Israel
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Career landmark: United States representative (2017–2019).
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Career landmark: United States representative (2015–2017).
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Career landmark: United States representative (2013–2015).
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Career landmark: United States representative (2011–2013).
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"I have always opposed taxpayer funding of abortion
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Career landmark: United States representative (2009–2011).
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Career landmark: United States representative (2007–2009).
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Voted in favor of the Peru–United States Trade Promotion Agreement despite some Democratic opposition
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Career landmark: United States representative (2005–2007).
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And opposed President Bush's 2006 request to send additional troops
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Career landmark: United States representative (2003–2005).
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Career landmark: United States representative (2001–2003).
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Won the Democratic primary against Joseph R
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Career landmark: United States representative (1999–2001).
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Successfully pushed to exempt a child tax credit from being affected by the AMT, and in 2001 Congress made the exemption permanent at his urging
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Career landmark: United States representative (1997–1999).
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And easily dispatched him with 71 percent of the vote and ran unopposed in 1998
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“Mother Earth Mother Board : In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth”
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And 2002 he voted against fast track bills that gave the president the authority to negotiate trade deals without amendments by Congress
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Career landmark: United States representative (1995–1997).
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Career landmark: United States representative (1993–1995).
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Neal moved to the House Ways and Means Committee, where he currently serves
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His popularity was threatened by the House banking scandal, in which he had made dozens of unpenalized overdrafts at the House Bank
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Career landmark: United States representative (1991–1993).
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Career landmark: United States representative (1989–1991).
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After 18-term Democratic incumbent Edward Boland retired
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Career landmark: congressional staff (1984–1988).
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Neal made plans to challenge Theodore Dimauro, the Democratic incumbent mayor of Springfield
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And was named President of the City Council in 1979
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Career landmark: member (1978–1984).
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With a Master of Arts in public administration
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Studied at University of Hartford, Master of Business Administration (1976).
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Became an assistant to Springfield Mayor William C
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With a Bachelor of Arts in political science
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Studied at American International College, Bachelor of Arts (1972).
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“We’re bankers. That is really all we are. If you’ve been imagining some sort of fabulous conspiracy, you are in for a disappointment. Bankers, you see, don’t actually do very much. We take our percentage. That is all. We subsist on movements of money—across space, across time, and between Strands.”
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Born 1949-02-14.
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In Worcester, Massachusetts, the oldest of three children of Mary H
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We’re bankers. That is really all we are. If you’ve been imagining some sort of fabulous conspiracy, you are in for a disappointment. Bankers, you see, don’t actually do very much. We take our percentage. That is all. We subsist on movements of money—across space, across time, and between Strands.
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