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NEW YORK – On Monday, August 22, 2022, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) began his week in Nassau County with the National Supermarket Association, along with the Bodega Owners and Small Business Association.

On Tuesday, August 23, 2022, Congressman Zeldin attended the Warwick Annual Senior Barbecue in Orange County with his running mate Alison Esposito, Assemblyman and candidate for Congress Colin Schmitt, State Senator Mike Martucci, and many other local officials, candidates, and New Yorkers.

Following the barbecue, Congressman Zeldin hosted a press conference at the Hudson Sports Complex in Warwick, with Alison Esposito, Senator Martucci, Assemblyman Schmitt, Assemblyman Karl Brabenec, local officials, and small business owners to speak out against the Hochul Administration charging small businesses an additional Unemployment Insurance Interest Assessment Surcharge. New York State gave out $110 billion in unemployment benefits throughout the pandemic, forcing the state to take out a federal loan. New York now has to pay back $8.1 billion to the federal government. Congressman Zeldin outlined a better path forward that would provide local small businesses with relief from this additional surcharge.

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Congressman Zeldin ended his night in Cedarhurst where he joined Assemblyman Ari Brown, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, and concerned members of the Cedarhurst Jewish Community. With antisemitism on the rise in New York State, Congressman Zeldin made it clear that antisemitism in any form will not be tolerated in this state.

Following the press conference, Congressman Zeldin made two other stops with the Jewish community in the Five Towns. In Lawrence, he joined Rabbi Kamenetsky for the Yeshiva of South Shore Concert on the Lawn. He ended his night delivering remarks at the Cedarhurst Jewish Night Concert at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park.

On Thursday, August 25, Congressman Zeldin met with former State Senator and NYC Councilman Ruben Diaz, and addressed the Organization of Hispanic Ministers in New York, and other community leaders in the Bronx.

Congressman Zeldin then visited the site of an apartment complex where seniors have been getting terrorized and assaulted by a group of teenagers. He renewed his call to pass his Secure Our Streets Plan for New York, which can be read at ZeldinForNewYork.Com/SecureOurStreets.

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Congressman Zeldin ended his night in Suffolk County where he headlined the Suffolk County Republican Committee’s annual lobsterfest.

On Saturday, August 26, Congressman Zeldin traveled to Montgomery to attend and speak at the New York Airshow along with Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus.

He then spoke at a campaign event in Manhattan, where he met with concerned members of the Asian American Community.

Afterwards, Congressman Zeldin joined Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman at the Lakeside Theater in Eisenhower Park as a part of Nassau County’s summer concert series. He addressed the crowd before the Gin Blossoms headline performance.

Congressman Zeldin ended his night attending a Volunteer Appreciation Event at Tommy’s Place in Port Jefferson.

On Sunday, August 28, Congressman Zeldin delivered remarks at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Queens.

He ended the week in Kings County by attending the Brighton Jubilee in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

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About Lee Zeldin

Lee Zeldin was born and raised on Long Island. He grew up in Suffolk County and graduated from William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach, where his identical twin daughters attend school today. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany and then his law degree from Albany Law School, becoming New York’s youngest attorney at the time at the age of 23.

Lee spent four years on Active Duty with the U.S. Army after completing ROTC and served in different capacities, including as a Military Intelligence Officer, Prosecutor, and Military Magistrate. In the summer of 2006, while assigned to the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division, Lee deployed to Iraq with an infantry battalion of fellow paratroopers in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

In 2007, Lee returned to Suffolk County with his family. It was at this time that Lee transitioned from Active Duty to the Army Reserve, where he currently serves with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

In 2008, Lee established a successful law practice in Smithtown, NY. Elected to the New York State Senate two years later, in 2010, Lee’s been working hard every day since to keep the promises he made to the hard-working families he represents.

In the State Senate, Lee:

• Led the successful effort to repeal the MTA Payroll Tax for 80 percent of employers, a job killing tax that was hurting small businesses. 

• Cosponsored the nation’s strongest property tax cap, which became law.

• Reduced middle-income tax rates in New York to the lowest level in 60 years.

• Secured the repeal of the Saltwater Fishing License Fee.

• Created the PFC Joseph Dwyer Veteran Peer Support Program to help our returning veterans cope with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). 

• Authored the law to protect our fallen veterans and their families from protests at military burials. 

Lee was then elected to the United States Congress in 2014, representing New York’s First Congressional District, and has now won seven consecutive races since 2010 in purple NYC suburban districts, unseating two Democrat incumbents along the way. In Congress, Lee quickly became a leading voice in America on top local, domestic and foreign policy issues: 

• Combating and defeating MS-13 on Long Island, leading the charge in New York and nationally against cashless bail, opposing all efforts to defund, dismantle or abolish police, and providing law enforcement the resources they need to fight gang violence and other crimes in our communities, including bulletproof vests.

• Securing the repeal of many harmful, job killing regulations, with the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, and many other initiatives, to improve our business climate and grow our economy. 

• Leading the charge to end all COVID mandates. 

• Saving Plum Island, by securing the repeal of a 2008 federal law requiring the island to be sold off to the highest bidder. 

• Delivering a $1.5 billion boost in border security resources, helping to choke off the flow of illegal migration across our borders. 

• Introducing and passing into law his Adult Day Health Care legislation for disabled veterans and opening a new health care clinic for East End veterans.

• Delivering the Electron Ion Collider “discovery machine” to Brookhaven National Lab that will enable advancements in national security, medical and cancer research, astrophysics, and more and create an extensive number of jobs. 

• Advancing his law enforcement bill of rights, which would help ensure that our great law enforcement officers and the people they serve are protected.

• Championing the expansion of the Dwyer Program nationally, to help all of our nation’s veterans access the resources they need. 

• Securing much needed support of treatment, enforcement, and prevention for those affected by the heroin and opioid abuse crisis.

• Leading the effort against the fatally flawed Iran Nuclear Deal.

• Co-authoring a bipartisan resolution (H.Res. 246) that passed the House opposing the anti-Israel and antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.

• Working with the Army Corps of Engineers to protect our coastlines, advancing the ambitious Fire Island to Montauk Point project, in addition to several other vital projects on the north and south shores of Long Island.

• Co-Chairing the Long Island Sound Caucus and advancing top priorities for the Long Island Sound Program, National Estuary Program and SeaGrant.

• Co-chairing, as one of only two Jewish Republicans in Congress, the House Republican Israel Caucus, and serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Financial Services Committee, as well as four House Subcommittees.

• Successfully resolving over 17,000 constituent cases in favor of his constituents.

Lee and his wife, Diana, reside in Shirley with their twin fifteen-year old daughters, Mikayla and Arianna.