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February 7, 2011
Dear Friends,
I want to offer you best wishes for the new year and to share my thoughts with you on the challenges we face in 2011. Above all, I want to expand opportunities for you to communicate directly with me or my staff, including the survey you will find in this e-newsletter.
My priorities for 2011 involve issues that affect your daily life. At the top: jobs. We need a tax strategy that promotes business growth and consumer confidence. I believe in deficit reduction and that calls for targeting any tax cuts to the middle class and an immediate reduction of forces in Afghanistan. We need to improve services for our veterans and protect our Social Security system. Global warming demands that steps be taken now to prevent environmental disaster later. Consumer safety needs to be ramped up, starting with the safer delivery of natural gas, improved crash responses of vehicles, and protection against everyday products containing poisons such as cadmium in children’s toys.
Congress and the President rewrote the rules on health insurance, credit cards and financial investments in order to create a safety net for middle class security. Over the past decade of deregulation, we’ve had too many getting rich playing financial games at the expense of the rest of us. Now it’s time to enforce these new laws to ensure that public benefits are full and immediate.
We all realize that projected government spending over this coming decade must be reduced. I was the only member of Congress to create a public process of review of earmarks by a panel of local citizens. This year, I won’t be requesting earmarks and I hope that my colleagues will also embrace restraint. I will be targeting government waste, especially Medicare fraud and military cash cows. I will also be examining the rapid growth of addictive prescription pain medications that turn people into lifelong patients. If you have information about a wasteful program, I want to hear from you.
These are just a few of my priorities for 2011. I look forward to fighting hard to ensure that I making the best decisions for the people of California’s 12th district. More importantly, I want to hear what is important to you and what you want me to focus on in 2011. Please take the survey below so your voice is heard.
I invite you to talk to me about the issues of the day at a special telephone town hall, Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 7 p.m. You can participate from your home. Sign up by visiting my website, or call 650-342-0300 to find out how to register. I hope to hear from you—there is much to do this year!
Finally, please, don’t wait for a town hall to contact me regarding an issue of importance to you. Call my office in San Mateo at 650-342-0300 or click here to send me an e-mail. In addition, you can always find up to the minute reports at my website, Twitter, and Facebook. I want to hear from you!
 All the best,
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Capitol Hill Office
211 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-3531
Fax: (202) 226-4183 |
District Office
400 S. El Camino Real, Suite 750
San Mateo, CA 94402
Phone: (650) 342-0300
Fax: (650) 375-8270 |
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