Marty Meehan
Marty Meehan
Martin Thomas "Marty" Meehanis the current President of the University of Massachusetts, a position he assumed on July 1, 2015. A Democrat, Meehan served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2007 as the representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district, and as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 2007 to 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
country home winning
For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.
opportunity reality iraq
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
government years guarantees-that
Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.
views united-states polls
Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
grateful hymns achievement
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
years class government
I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
world too-late credibility
It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
past average years
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
years oil america
What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.
moral-high-ground leader president
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
broken enforcement needs
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
today excess congress
The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
two massachusetts pumps
The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.
iraq hurricanes burden
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.