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March 12, 2009- Congressman Sires meets with Olympic Gold Medalist Cullen Jones to spread the awareness of the importance of swimming lessons for children.

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January 23, 2009- Congressman Sires and Secretary Salazar listen to a park attendant at Ellis Island during the Secretary's visit to the Statue of Liberty.

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June 8, 2009- Congressman Sires speaks at the ARC Mass Transit Tunnel groundbreaking ceremony about the importance of the tunnel to the 13th District.  The project is expected to bring in 6,000 jobs a year, as well as double rail capacity into NYC.

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February 25, 2009- Myra Brodsky of Guttenberg and the American Council of the Blind visits with Congressman Sires.

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February 18, 2009- Congressman Sires greets Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Ferry Captain Britanny Catanzara, who helped to rescue 26 of the passengers of flight 1549.

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August 5, 2008: Congressman Sires welcomes Union City residents to the National Night Out Against Crime event held in Union City.

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May 25, 2009- Congressman Sires marching in the Bayonne Memorial Day Parade.

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September 30, 2008- Congressman Sires and Congressman Oberstar take a tour of several Light Rail stations in Hudson County.

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March 4, 2009- Congressman Sires holds his annual meeting with the Jewish War Veterans in his Washington office.

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March 2, 2009- Jeane Lutz of Carteret displays her quilts that will be given to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital.  Pictured L-R: Mayor Daniel Reiman of Carteret, Jeane Lutz, Congressman Sires, and 1st Sgt. Quin Waterman.

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April 24, 2009- Congressman Sires and members of MAST Construction take a tour of the Garden Street Lofts in Hoboken, which is New Jersey's first residential, high-rise, GREEN building.

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NJ FamilyCare Applications

NJ FamilyCare recently mailed-out applications for the program to income-eligible families in New Jersey as a way to remind them that there are health insurance options available for their children at very low rates, and for some, at no cost at all.  Applications were mailed to families who indicated on their state tax forms that at least one child in the home was uninsured.  The packets, which were delivered in bright yellow envelopes, were sent to families in Essex and Hudson Counties on June 30th and to Middlesex and Union counties on June 4th.

To date, more than 450,000 children in New Jersey are uninsured.  NJ FamilyCare is a low-cost or no cost health insurance program and is the State of New Jersey’s way of providing affordable health coverage for income-eligible families.  I would encourage families that received the applications to apply to the program as soon as possible and for families with questions on the NJ FamilyCare program or who did not receive an application, but believe they are eligible, please call 1-800-701-0710 or visit www.njfamilycare.org.

 

The House of Representatives has recently released a draft of health care reform legislation that includes a public plan option, do you support such a plan?