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</font></font></font></div><div>Calls for a <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/midterm-results-environment-climate-change-2618493194.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Green New Deal</a> are gaining traction in the two short weeks after the young <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">climate</a> activists of the <a href="https://www.sunrisemovement.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Sunrise Movement</a> and Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/ocasio-cortez-pelosi-climate-change-2619674477.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">stormed</a> Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi's Capitol Hill office.</div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="https://www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Fifteen members</a> of Congress have now backed Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to establish a "<a href="https://ocasio2018.com/green-new-deal" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">select committee</a>" in the House of Representatives to develop a plan to—basically—reduce <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/greenhouse-gases" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">greenhouse gas</a> emissions and to transition the U.S. to 100 percent <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">renewable energy</a> sources within 10 years of passing the Green New Deal legislation.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Supporters in the House include John Lewis, the civil rights leader and Democratic congressman from Georgia, and trailblazers Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;">--- no lnx</p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>As ThinkProgress reported, Democratic congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine joined the growing list of backers on Tuesday.</div><div>
</div><div>"We don't need another report to tell us climate change is a threat to our health, environment and economy," she said in a statement on her website. "We must take urgent action to end our nation's reliance on fossil fuels and stop the damage greenhouse gases have done to our way of life."</div><div>
</div><div>Pingree, an organic farmer and member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment, said the effects of climate change have greatly impacted her state.</div><div>
</div><div>"Look no further than Maine's lobster industry to see the looming economic crisis facing our state due to rapidly warming waters," she said. "Meanwhile rates of asthma and tick-borne illness in Maine have dramatically spiked because of fossil fuel emissions and rising temperatures. I see the crisis of climate change every day in my state and believe a new committee dedicated exclusively to this crisis can support the long-standing work of other House committees and help to fast-track solutions."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Here are the 15 House Democrats supporting the measure: </b></div><div>
</div><div>Jared Huffman (CA-02)</div><div>Ro Khanna (CA-17)</div><div>Ted Lieu (CA-33)</div><div>John Lewis (GA-05)</div><div>Joe Neguse (CO-02)</div><div>Chellie Pingree (ME-01)</div><div>Jamie Raskin (MD-08)</div><div>Ayanna Pressley (MA-07)</div><div>Rashida Tlaib (MI-13)</div><div>Ilhan Omar (MN-05)</div><div>Deb Halland (NM-01)</div><div>Carolyn Maloney (NY-12)</div><div>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)</div><div>José E. Serrano (NY-15)</div><div>Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)</div><div>
</div><div>The proposal also has the support of nearly 100 environmental, economic and social justice organizations, according to the Sunrise Movement.</div><div>
</div><div>To build momentum, the youth climate group is organizing another mass action at the Capitol on Dec. 10, right before Congress breaks for the holidays, "to make sure Ocasio's Select Committee on a Green New Deal makes it on the agenda for 2019," Sunrise Movement founder Varshini Prakash said in an emailed press release.</div><div>
</div><div>The group launched the effort only yesterday and 230 people have already signed up to participate. (You can also join the action in DC, or if you're on the West Coast, you can sign up for the action in Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco.)</div><div>
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</div><div>Last week, the National Climate Assessment report—compiled by 13 federal agencies and more than 300 scientists—warned that climate change could kill thousands of Americans each year and slash the GDP by more than 10 percent by 2100.</div><div>
</div><div>President Donald Trump, who is fixated on fossil fuels, dismissed his own government's report by saying "I don't believe it." </div><div>
</div><div>"People are going to die if we don't start addressing climate change ASAP. It's not enough to think it's 'important.' We must make it urgent," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted after the report's release. "That's why we need a Select Committee on a Green New Deal, & why fossil fuel-funded officials shouldn't be writing climate change policy."</div><div>
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</font></div><div id="siteSub" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">J<b style="">osé Enrique Serrano</b> (born October 24, 1943) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">American</a> politician who has been a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">United States House of Representatives</a> since 1990. Serrano, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Democrat</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York(state)" title="New York (state)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New York</a>, represents a district that is one of the smallest in the country geographically, consisting of a few square miles of the heavily populated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bronx" title="South Bronx" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">South Bronx</a>in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New York City</a>. His district is also one of the most densely populated and one of the few majority Hispanic districts in the country. The district was numbered the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_18th_congressional_district" title="New York's 18th congressional district" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">18th</a> from 1990 to 1993 and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_16th_congressional_district" title="New York's 16th congressional district" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">16th</a> from 1993 to 2013; it has been the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_15th_congressional_district" title="New York's 15th congressional district" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">15th district</a> since 2013.</font></div><div id="siteSub" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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text-decoration: inherit;">New York Assembly</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#U.S.House_of_Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Tenure</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#Caucus_memberships" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Caucus memberships</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#Party_leadership" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Party leadership</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_military_service" /><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life,education,and_military_service">Early life, education, and military service</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and military service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Serrano was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayag%C3%BCez,Puerto_Rico" title="Mayagüez, Puerto Rico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mayagüez, Puerto Rico</a>. At the age of seven, Serrano was taken by his family to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Bronx</a>, where he was raised in the Millbrook Houses. Serrano went to Grace Dodge Vocational High School in the Bronx and then attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_College" title="Lehman College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lehman College</a>. He served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Army</a> medical corps from 1964 to 1966.</font></p><h2 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="New_York_Assembly">New York Assembly</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano&action=edit§ion=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: New York Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly" title="New York State Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York State Assembly</a> from 1975 to 1990, sitting in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181st_New_York_State_Legislature" title="181st New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">181st</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/182nd_New_York_State_Legislature" title="182nd New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">182nd</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/183rd_New_York_State_Legislature" title="183rd New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">183rd</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/184th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="184th New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">184th</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/185th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="185th New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">185th</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/186th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="186th New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">186th</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/187th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="187th New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">187th</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/188th_New_York_State_Legislature" title="188th New York State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">188th New York State Legislatures</a>. His district was numbered the 75th until 1982, and the 73rd from 1983 on. He was Chairman of the Committee on Consumer Affairs, and of the Committee on Education.</font></p><h2 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano&action=edit§ion=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1990, Serrano won a special election for the seat vacated by resigning U.S. Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garcia(New_York_politician)" title="Robert Garcia (New York politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert García</a> with 92% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He has never won re-election with less than 92% of the vote,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> in what is considered one of the safest seats in Congress.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2004, Congressman Serrano faced an electoral challenge from Jose Serrano, an unemployed former loading dockworker with the same name who eventually dropped out of the race in July.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tenure">Tenure</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano&action=edit§ion=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus" title="Congressional Progressive Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Progressive Caucus</a>, he is widely regarded as one of the most progressive members of Congress. He has been questioned about his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel_spending" class="mw-redirect" title="Pork barrel spending" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pork barrel spending</a>by some fiscal conservative members of Congress. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arizona</a> Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Flake" title="Jeff Flake" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeff Flake</a> once said of Serrano's $150,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earmark(politics)" title="Earmark (politics)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">earmark</a> to repair the roof at the city-owned Arthur Avenue Market (a historic indoor produce and prepared food market in the Bronx's "Little Italy"), "I would argue this is one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannoli" title="Cannoli" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cannoli</a> the taxpayer doesn't want to take a bite of."<sup id="cite_ref-60minutes_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-60minutes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> Serrano replied to Flake, "The more you get up on these, sir, the more I realize that you do not know what you are talking about. I make no excuses about the fact that I earmark dollars to go in the poorest congressional district in the nation, which is situated in the richest city on earth."<sup id="cite_ref-60minutes_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-60minutes-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On November 18, 2005, he was one of three votes in favor of immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. The other two votes were from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_McKinney" title="Cynthia McKinney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cynthia McKinney</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia(U.S.state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Georgia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wexler" title="Robert Wexler" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Wexler</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" title="Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Florida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1997 [HJR 19],<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> 1999 [HJR 17],<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> 2001 [HJR 4],<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> 2003 [HJR 11],<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> 2005 [HJR 9],<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> 2007 [HJR 8],<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> 2009 [HJR 5],<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> 2011 [HJR 17],<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> and 2013 [HJR 15],<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> Serrano introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Constitution of the United States</a> to repeal the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">22nd Amendment</a>, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may be elected to as president. Each resolution died without ever getting past the committee.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> Serrano's January 2013 proposal was met with heavily negative backlash in social media, including a flood of so-called "hateful" comments on his Facebook page.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="Current references do not mention backlash. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Serrano has paid attention to local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_New_York" title="Environmental issues in New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">environmental issues in New York</a>, with a particular focus on constructing greenways, acquiring parklands, and cleaning up the Bronx River, which runs through his district</b>. Recently a beaver was discovered swimming in the river for the first time in 200 years, something seen as a testament to his efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> In 2007, he engineered the purchase of the last privately owned island in New York harbor—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Brother_Island,East_River" class="mw-redirect" title="South Brother Island, East River" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Brother Island</a>—for preservation in perpetuity by the City of New York as a wildlife refuge for rare shorebirds.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Serrano is one of three New York-area congressmen on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Appropriations" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Appropriations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Appropriations Committee</a>, the others being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nita_Lowey" title="Nita Lowey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nita Lowey</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_18th_congressional_district" title="New York's 18th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">18th district</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Meng" title="Grace Meng" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Grace Meng</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="New York's 6th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6th district</a>. He is currently the ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services, having previously served as the chair. As chairman, he successfully engineered the inclusion of language in the 2007 omnibus spending bill that guarantees the extension of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters" title="50 State Quarters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">50 State Quarters</a> program to include the minting of 6 additional quarters to honor the District of Columbia and the 5 United States territories, including Serrano's native Puerto Rico.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Serrano has also been an advocate for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050307094344/http://www.pr-secretfiles.net/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">Puerto Ricans under FBI prosecution</a>. In May 2000, he brokered an agreement with then-FBI Director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh" title="Louis Freeh" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louis Freeh</a>, then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_Independence_Party" title="Puerto Rican Independence Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Puerto Rican Independence Party</a> Electoral Commissioner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Orellana" title="Manuel Rodríguez Orellana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Manuel Rodríguez Orellana</a> and then Puerto Rico Senate Federal Affairs Committee chairman (and future Puerto Rico Senate President and Secretary of State) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_McClintock" title="Kenneth McClintock" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kenneth McClintock</a>, that has resulted in the release of nearly 100,000 pages of previously secret FBI files on Puerto Rican political activists.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Serrano was a critic of the Bush administration's approach to handling President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hugo Chávez</a> of Venezuela. In 2005, while the Venezuelan President was in New York City speaking before the United Nations, the congressman invited him to his district to speak to his constituency.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> After Chávez' death, Serrano published condolences via <i>Twitter</i> describing him as a leader who "understood the needs of the poor. He was committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> His statements prompted a response from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican National Committee</a> that described Serrano's tweet as "simply insulting that a Democrat Congressman would praise the authoritarian ruler Hugo Chávez."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; 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background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee on Appropriations</font></a></b><ul style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229.5%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%2300528c%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Appropriations_Subcommittee_on_Commerce,Justice,Science,and_Related_Agencies" title="United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Appropriations_Subcommittee_on_Financial_Services_and_General_Government" title="United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranking_Member" class="mw-redirect" title="Ranking Member" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ranking Member</a>)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Appropriations_Subcommittee_on_Interior,Environment,and_Related_Agencies" title="United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies</font></a></li></ul></li></ul><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Caucus_memberships">Caucus memberships</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano&action=edit§ion=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Caucus memberships" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229.5%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%2300528c%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Hispanic_Caucus" title="Congressional Hispanic Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Hispanic Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus" title="Congressional Progressive Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Progressive Caucus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_International_Conservation_Caucus" title="United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">International Conservation Caucus</font></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Arts_Caucus" title="Congressional Arts Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Arts Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterschool_Caucuses" title="Afterschool Caucuses" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Afterschool Caucuses</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_International_Conservation_Caucus" title="United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></li></ul><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Party_leadership">Party leadership</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; 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background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_E.Serrano&action=edit§ion=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Serrano's son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_M.Serrano" title="José M. Serrano" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">José M. Serrano</a>, is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York State Senate</a>. 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