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By The Editorial Board
We've been down this runway before.
Six years ago, when residents of North Shore neighborhoods complained of aircraft noise due to the Kennedy Airport flight patterns, Rep. Tom Suozzi worked with the Federal Aviation Administration and air traffic control personnel to develop new regulations that would reduce noise and improve his constituents' quality of life.
Now, he and other local elected officials are right back in the same flight pattern.
Some Nassau County residents are complaining about being bombarded with noise from low-flying planes after a group of elected officials said the Federal Aviation Administration abandoned a plan that had curbed the racket by changing flight procedures at Kennedy Airport’s main arrival runways.
Tom Suozzi, shown in January, looks to overhaul the country's current immigration policies through bipartisan legislation. Credit: Howard Schnapp
WASHINGTON — A new coalition of stakeholders in immigration policy has begun to pull together bipartisan legislation to secure the border, fix the broken asylum system and modernize immigration law, Rep. Tom Suozzi said Tuesday.
Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) said he and Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-Texas) kicked off the new effort last week with a roundtable meeting attended by 50 immigration advocates, business associations and others engaged in the issue in person in Washington and another 70 on Zoom.
Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi talks about his return to Congress to represent New York’s 3rd District.
Congressman Tom Suozzi joins us to talk about the November election, the immigration border crisis, and more.
Rich Barrabi has the first one-on-one interview with Rep. Tom Suozzi from Washington, D.C. since he was sworn into office this week. Also on the show, Republican congressmen Nick LaLota and Anthony D'Esposito on Suozzi's speech from the House floor.
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Nassau, Queens) was sworn into office Wednesday afternoon, just two weeks after winning the special election to fill the seat left vacant as a result of former Rep. George Santos’ expulsion.
“Mr. Speaker, I never thought I’d be back here, but the Lord works in mysterious ways and God made a way out of no way,” he said, addressing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
Newly elected Congressman Tom Suozzi was sworn in Wednesday night to officially claim the seat left by ousted rep. George Santos, narrowing the majority held by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
“Mr. Speaker, I never thought I’d be back here,” Suozzi said. “But the Lord works in mysterious ways and God made a way when there was no way.”
Two weeks before he was sworn in, Suozzi defeated his challenger Nassau County District 10 Legislator Mazi Pilip (R–Great Neck) in a special election to finish the term left by Santos.
Democrat Tom Suozzi, sworn in Wednesday to represent New York's 3rd Congressional District, said he planned to press for a bipartisan border deal, revive efforts to fully restore the state and local tax deduction and work to secure millions of dollars in federal funding to protect Long Island Sound water quality.
Suozzi laid out his priorities for serving out expelled former Rep. George Santos' term, which expires Dec. 31, in an interview with Newsday.
Mr. Suozzi, a Democrat, sought to use his return to Washington after a closely watched special election to push both parties toward the middle.
It took three frantic months for Tom Suozzi to fight his way back to Congress. On Wednesday, after taking the oath of office, Mr. Suozzi waited just moments to excoriate the place.