Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Albio Sires [D, NJ-13]

13th Annual Cuban Day Parade celebrates Cuban heritage with a touch of controversy

2012-06-03T21:11:41Z

"This parade has never been used for political reasons," Del Valle said. Additionally, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, U.S. Representative Albio Sires, and Union City Mayor Brian Stack all marched in the parade. North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco was also ...

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Battle in the 8th District

2012-06-02T23:57:31Z

Albio Sires, the incumbent congressman and former mayor of West New York, will face off against independent Democrat Michael J. Shurin in the June 5 Democratic primary. The 8th District was formerly the 13th district until boundary lines were changed this

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The Mailbag: Crime is Only Going to Get Worse Unless We Tackle the Underlying Issue at the Federal Level

2012-06-01T12:02:52Z

What we need now is to have more people in Congress who are willing to openly talk about it. Rep. Albio Sires is not part of this solution. He is a member of the old guard, and has voted in favor of the drug war before and will continue to do so.

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Congressman Albio Sires faces challenger who backs legalization of marijuana

2012-06-01T10:58:27Z

Rep. Albio Sires may be the overwhelming favorite to win Tuesday's primary in the Eighth Congressional District, but his opponent, Jersey City resident Michael J. Shurin, has at least one attention-grabbing campaign issue: The legalization of ...

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Congressman Albio Sires faces primary opponent, a Jersey City man who supports legalization of marijuana

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...Albio Sires may be the overwhelming favorite to win Tuesday's primary in the Eighth Congressional District, but his opponent, Jersey City resident Michael J. Shurin, has at least one attention-grabbing campaign issue: The legalization of marijuana, The

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Gun control regulations have failed to stem violent gun crime: letter

2012-06-01T01:00:00Z

...were appointed to the House and Senate, respectively, a minimum of 50,000 Mexicans have died. Sen. Menendez and Rep. Albio Sires both voted to support this war when they voted YES for the Merida Initiative (U.S. funding for the drug war in Mexico). So m

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Contest heats up in Eighth Congressional District Democratic primary

2012-05-31T20:53:46Z

Rep. Albio Sires might be the overwhelming favorite to win next Tuesday's Democratic primary in the Eighth Congressional District, but his opponent, Jersey City resident Michael J. Shurin has at least one attention-grabbing campaign issue ...

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Several wards in Jersey City and Bayonne are split between the Eighth and 10th Congressional Districts

2012-05-31T02:02:46Z

After redistricting, most of Jersey City and Bayonne ended up in the Eighth Congressional District, which Rep. Albio Sires is expected to represent after November’s general election. But portions on the western edge of both cities remain in ...

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Six candidates, one winner in 10th Congressional District

2012-05-30T10:17:52Z

Payne has won the endorsement of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Rep. Albio Sires, and powerful Jersey City Councilman Steve Fulop. Donald Payne Jr. Donald Payne Jr. is 53 and currently in his second term as an At-large Newark City Councilman and council presid

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Sires challenged for House of Representatives seat

2012-05-30T10:17:52Z

Jim McGreevey: Hudson County Corrections excels at Re-entry

2012-05-29T09:14:38Z

Sandra Cunningham, U.S. Rep Albio Sires and Sen. Robert Menendez. Finally, the program has jail director Oscar Aviles, whose no-nonsense discipline is matched by his unwavering commitment to make jail a wayward stop, not a way of life.

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Quigley: Democrats have real choices this June

2012-05-29T04:56:56Z

District 8, the largest piece of Hudson, remains firmly in the grip of Congressman Albio Sires, who has no significant opposition despite rumors of his impending ouster rumbling through back rooms all last year. In District 9, which includes ...

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Morning News Digest: May 29, 2012

2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

...in the wake of reapportionment last year, Shurin will have a tough time unseating his well-established opponent. Rep. Albio Sires, the Democratic incumbent, has a strong foothold in the district, which is dominated by Hudson County. He’s not expected

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I have your back’

2012-05-26T23:51:30Z

A veritable who’s who of local Democrats sat in the first two rows of the large gymnasium in support of Menendez’s campaign, including Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healey, Rep. Albio Sires (D-33

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Open thread for night owls: Same thing, different week

2012-05-24T03:22:39Z

Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), David Rivera (R-FL) and Albio Sires (D-NJ) wrote a strongly-worded letter to ... thus dooming people like Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to (shudder) a life of pandering to much duller, more sensible people? We can only imagine what ...

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Open thread for night owls: Same thing, different week

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...in Cuba who are enduring relentless persecution.” Ros-Lehtinen and Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), David Rivera (R-FL) and Albio Sires (R-NJ) wrote a strongly-worded letter to the State Department saying: I thought for quite a while on this one, tryin

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Morning News Digest: May 24, 2012

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...and considerably more agreement. (Ensslin, The Record) Two Democratic candidates -- Michael J. Shurin and incumbent U.S. Rep. Albio Sires -- are squaring off for their party’s nomination in the 8th Congressional District. Sires currently represents Di

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Open thread for night owls: Same thing, different week

2012-05-23T23:26:25Z

Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), David Rivera (R-FL) and Albio Sires (R-NJ) wrote a strongly-worded letter ... thus dooming people like Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to (shudder) a life of pandering to much duller, more sensible people?

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UN panel asks Cuba about prison deaths

2012-05-23T01:07:49Z

Mario Diaz-Balart and David Rivera, and New Jersey Democrat Albio Sires.

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Menendez launches Senate reelection bid

2012-05-22T01:59:07Z

Brian Stack, brought out U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Rep. Steve Rothman, D-Englewood, Rep. Albio Sires, D-Hudson, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-Monmouth, Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, D-Essex and Assemblyman John Wisniewski, chairman of the New Jersey Democratic

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