Honorable Jose E. Serrano
United States Representative, New York, Democrat
Representative Serrano, of the Sixteenth District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. He served on the District 7 School Board from 1969 to 1974 and in the New York Assembly from 1974 to 1990. He is a member of the Appropriations Committee. The following is from the May 16, 2002, House floor debate on H.R. 4737, the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act. If self-sufficiency can be defined as raising a family just at or below the poverty level, with little or no chance of increasing earning potential because the breadwinner…
