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Rep. Albio Sires
Democrat • 13th District, New Jersey • 4th Term • Sworn In 2006
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- Votes with party 94%
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The Mailbag: Crime is Only Going to Get Worse Unless We Tackle the Underlying Issue at the Federal Level
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.
Congressman Albio Sires faces challenger who backs legalization of marijuana
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 ...
Congressman Albio Sires faces primary opponent, a Jersey City man who supports legalization of marijuana
...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
Gun control regulations have failed to stem violent gun crime: letter
...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
Contest heats up in Eighth Congressional District Democratic primary
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 ...
Several wards in Jersey City and Bayonne are split between the Eighth and 10th Congressional Districts
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 ...
Six candidates, one winner in 10th Congressional District
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
Sires challenged for House of Representatives seat
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
Jim McGreevey: Hudson County Corrections excels at Re-entry
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.
Quigley: Democrats have real choices this June
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 ...
Morning News Digest: May 29, 2012
...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
I have your back’
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
Open thread for night owls: Same thing, different week
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 ...
Open thread for night owls: Same thing, different week
...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
Morning News Digest: May 24, 2012
...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
Open thread for night owls: Same thing, different week
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?
UN panel asks Cuba about prison deaths
Mario Diaz-Balart and David Rivera, and New Jersey Democrat Albio Sires.
Menendez launches Senate reelection bid
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
H.R. 1909 — Unfinished Free-Market Business to Lift Barriers to Lending
...is sponsored by Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.), with cosponsors including liberal Democrats such as Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Albio Sires (D-N.J.), and conservative Republicans such as Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), who was a major force behind the J
Menendez launches Senate reelection bid
...by Union City Mayor and state Sen. 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,
FERC Approves Spectra’s Natural Gas Pipeline as Anti-Pipeline Groups Debate How to Proceed
Mayor Healy wrote a letter asking President Barack Obama to intervene, and he and Congressman Albio Sires pushed for new regulations at the national level to restrict how pipelines are built in urban areas. Despite the strong showing of ...
Senator Menendez kicks off re-election campaign at Union City High School
Congressman Albio Sires (D-33), and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). Union City Mayor and State Senator Brian Stack was one of the few chosen to introduce Menendez to the crowd. North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco and West New York Mayor Felix Roque were not
NJ Representives split on right to trial for US citizens
New Jersey's Congressman were split down party lines, with all of New Jersey's Democrats (Robert Andrews, Rush Holt, Frank Pallone, Steven Rothman, and Albio Sires) voting to guarantee the right to due process, while all of New Jersey's ...
Menendez launches his re-election campaign in Union City
Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, U.S. Rep. Steve Rothman, U.S. Rep. Albio Sires, Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo, Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald, state Sen. M. Teresa Ruiz, Assemblyman (and ...
Political Insider: Payne outfoxes Bayonne mayor with a Mr. Softee truck
...the new congressional district, is the endorsement of Hudson's khan, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez -- which means U.S. Rep, Albio's Sires' endorsement for Payne can't be far behind. Payne also has the thumbs up from state Sen. Brian Stack, mayor of Union Ci
Three local lawyers nominated to fill seats in state’s Superior Court
Turula, who unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Rep. Albio Sires in the 2008 election, is an attorney at Garcia and Turula and a former prosecutor. Young has been a managing partner in the firm Willis & Young P.C. since 1995 and served as a judicial clerk from
Cuban president's daughter gets U.S. visa
Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and David Rivera, all of Florida, along with New Jersey Rep. Albio Sires, wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Others said the hard-liners were stirring up controversy over something that ..
Cuban President Castro’s Daughter Gets Visa to Visit U.S.
Three Florida Republicans -- Ros-Lehtinen and Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and David Rivera -- joined Democratic Representative Albio Sires of New Jersey in expressing “outrage” over the State Department’s decision to provide entry ...
West New York's school board is expanded and adds two new members
Those two former board members were replaced by Vilma Reyes and Adrienne Sires. Sires, who is now president of the board, is the wife of U.S. Rep. Albio Sires and a former teacher and school administrator in the district. And last August ...
Cuban President Castro’s Daughter Gets Visa to Visit U.S.
Three Florida Republicans -- Ros-Lehtinen and Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and David Rivera -- joined Democratic Representative Albio Sires of New Jersey in expressing “outrage” over the State Department’s decision to provide entry ...
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