A recent national poll conducted by CBS News found that 80 percent of Americans feel our country is headed in the wrong direction. I have heard directly from constituents throughout my western New York district who share that sentiment.

Former factory workers tell me about the well-paying manufacturing jobs they have lost due to poorly negotiated trade agreements. Middle class families tell me about their struggle to make ends meet because their wages have not been raised in a decade. Veterans tell me about how they have been abandoned by the Department of Veteran Affairs due to poor management and squandered resources.