Bart comments on how challenges facing the U.S. should be handled

Our country currently faces many challenges, from the loss of jobs and the millions without health care to our dependency on foreign oil and diminished standing in the international community. To say the least, there are many tough decisions that will have to be made.

These are not Republican or Democratic problems — they are national problems. They affect all Americans. Each problem transcends partisan politics, and if we are going to effectively solve them, the two parties must come together, share ideas, and bring about the reform that the public has so clearly called for.

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Bart comments on U.S. competitiveness and innovation

As a young boy in Murfreesboro in November of 1957, I remember looking into the sky and seeing a blinking red dot pass overhead that struck fear into countless Americans. The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik and the beginning of the space race marked a period of unprecedented investment in research and math and science education in this country.

In the half century since Sputnik, the United States became a world leader in science and technology, education, research and innovation. These efforts fueled the nation’s economy and allowed each generation of Americans to inherit a better standard of living than their parents. But I fear our country is coasting on investments we made 50 years ago. Today, with the rapid economic and technological advances of other countries, I fear we are now on the cusp of another Sputnik moment.

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Congressman Bart Gordon Washington Office
2310 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4231
Fax: (202) 225-6887

Congressman Bart Gordon Murfreesboro Office
305 West Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
Phone: (615) 896-1986

Congressman Bart Gordon Cookeville Office
15 South Jefferson
Cookeville, TN 38501
Phone: (931) 528-5907

Congressman Bart Gordon Gallatin Office
100 Public Square Room B-100
Gallatin, TN 37066
Phone: (615) 451-5174