Andrew Cuomo
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"Andrew Mark Cuomo" is an American politician who is the 56th and current Governor of New York. A member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party, Cuomo was elected in 2010, holding the same position his father, Mario Cuomo, held from 1983 to 1994.

Born in Queens, New York, he is a graduate of Fordham University and Albany Law School. Cuomo began his career working as campaign manager for his father then served as an assistant district attorney in New York City before entering private practice. He founded the Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged and was appointed Chairman of the New York City Homeless Commission, where he served from 1990 to 1993.

Cuomo then joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 when he was appointed assistant secretary for Community Planning and Development in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He then served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development/Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1997 to 2001.

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She was a heroine who should be treated decently.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

The senior advisers to the president would recommend a veto on this bill, ... My voice would join those of the other senior advisers. I could not recommend more vehemently that the president should veto this bill if it's passed in its current form.

When you start to have one or two homes to come back, it starts to develop an energy in the community.

If companies know we're going to enforce the law, you'll see more compliance. And $6.5 billion says we're going to enforce the law.

Eleven states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than we have here in New York, ... caboose on the economic train.

If you're a friend to the working people of New York, and you're a friend to the labor movement, then raise the minimum wage.

He would be proud with the progress, because we have come far. But he would point to how far we still have left to go. Discrimination is still alive and well in America. It is hard to admit, but we will never solve a problem that we will not admit.

When we give people the help they need, it works.