Brian Higgins
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"Brian Higgins" is the United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. The district, numbered as the 27th District from 2005 to 2013, includes Buffalo, New York/Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York/Niagara Falls. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party; and is an active member of several congressional committees and caucuses. Higgins was born and raised in Buffalo, and graduated from college in Buffalo, later obtaining his graduate degrees from both Buffalo State College and Harvard University. Self-described as both an independent and conservative Democrat, Higgins is also considered a centrist. Higgins supports the strengthening of Social Security in the United States, and has been a proponent for nationwide universal healthcare. He further supports national and regional economic development. Previously being pro-life, Higgins' position is now pro-choice. He has also supported efforts for peace in many areas of the world, and has been actively involved in the Northern Ireland peace process. Higgins resides in South Buffalo, Buffalo, New York/South Buffalo with his wife, Mary Jane. He has two adult children, Maeve and John.

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The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

This matter is not closed. I will persist until Sinn Fein staff, those who have become instrumental in the movement towards peace and the implementation of the Good Friday Accords, are removed as well.

There's an agreement that in the event he travels in the future between domestic point A and B that he be given consideration, given the demands on his time and attention.

They're a new team and they're a young team.

Here was a woman who through a very unassuming personal action triggered a whole movement, ... I want to pay homage to that. As a white person, I find it particularly extraordinary that her act was such a universal message. It did as much for me as any minority in our society.

Now all of a sudden you're living and dying over it.

It's significant to me that this little whisper of an action could shake and rattle the country, ... We would have no excuse not to come.

That's why the Partnership is silent on this.