10/23/2006
Ackerman to Hold Town Hall Meeting for Queens Small Business Owners - (Washington, DC) - U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens/L.I.)—in conjunction with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)—will host a town hall meeting for Queens small business owners to make them aware of assistance and resources available to them from the federal government. ...(more)

10/13/2006
Ackerman to Hold Annual Community Blood Drive - (Washington, DC) - U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens/L.I.) today announced that his annual community-wide blood drive will take place at the Bayside Long Island Railroad station on Bell Boulevard on Monday, October 23, 2006 from 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM. The undertaking is organized and coordinated by the Congressman and his staff in conjunction with the New York Blood Center. ...(more)

10/10/2006
Ackerman Op-ed on North Korea‘s Apparent Nuclear Weapon Test - (Washington, DC) - It has become clear to me that we now have a FAITH BASED foreign policy. ...(more)

9/28/2006
Statement for the Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation and Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia on “Hizballah’s Global Reach” - (Washington, DC) - I want to thank the chairs for organizing this joint hearing. Hizballah’s emergence, not only as a Shia militia and political party, not only as an international terrorist organization, but as a strategic proxy for the Iranian theocracy. Hizballah is surely worth the attention of Congress. ...(more)

9/27/2006
Read Gary's Statement on U.S.-Korea Relations - (Washington, DC) - Mr. Chairman, five years into the Bush Administration I can only conclude that the President is not simply mismanaging policy towards South Korea but is actively pushing a close ally away. ...(more)

9/25/2006
Read Gary's Statement in Support of Renaming Flushing Post Office in Honor of New York State Senator Dr.Leonard Price Stavisky - (Washington, DC) - Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5923, a bill that would designate the United States Postal Service facility located at 29-50 Union Street in Flushing, New York, as the Dr. Leonard Price Stavisky Post Office. It is more than fitting that a Federal facility be named after Leonard in a community that he so ably represented for so many years; and I note for the record that the bill is cosponsored by every Member of the New York State delegation, both sides of the aisle. ...(more)

9/20/2006
Ackerman Blasts Administration on Afghanistan and Iraq - (Washington, DC) - Well, Mr. Chairman, they’re back!  The Taliban that is.  The terrorists, the mid-wives of the September 11 attacks, the protectors of Osama bin Laden.  I guess they didn’t get the memo telling them they’d been defeated almost 5 years ago, because they most certainly are not defeated, not even close. ...(more)

9/14/2006
Read Gary's Statement “Is There a Clash of Civilizations?” - (Washington, DC) - Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.  The 5 year anniversary of the September 11 attacks is an appropriate point for us to pause and take stock of the war against terrorism, but I find the subject of today’s hearing alarming.  I see two possibilities.  One, that 5 years into this conflict, we need to have a hearing to help define and describe our enemy because the Bush Administration has ignored one of the most basic and obvious dictums of strategy:  to know one’s enemy.  And that without accurately understanding who and what they’re fighting against, they can’t hope to fashion a successful response.  The second possibility is that this hearing is just another pre-election gambit to scare the public and bolster support for the war in Iraq by engaging in ominous historic make-believe and proposing some parallel to World War II.  Actually, there is also a third possibility, that both of these interpretations are correct. ...(more)