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Herman D. Farrell, Jr.
Assembly District 71
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![Lawmakers hands tied](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget1.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget1.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<b>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor May 11, 2010 in support of continued funding for State operations.</b><br>\"When the Governor gives us his bill, we have no choice.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![Government must continue](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget2.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget2.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<b>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor May 11, 2010 in support of continued funding for State operations.</b><br>\"The solution is not to say we\'re going to tie up government and we\'re going to get the Governor\'s attention.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![Furloughs hurt workers](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget3.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget3.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<b>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor May 11, 2010 in support of continued funding for State operations.</b><br>\"Anybody that\'s been living on the edge to begin with, this could throw them over the edge.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![Doing the least harm](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget4.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget4.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<b>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor May 11, 2010 in support of continued funding for State operations.</b><br>\"We believe this is the best direction to go in.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![Fighting for our parks](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget5.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/20100510Budget5New.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<b>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor May 11, 2010 in support of continued funding for State operations.</b><br>\"There are people who use these parks and need them. So what we\'re doing, then, is a major damage.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![Supporting students](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso1.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso1.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<strong>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor March 24, 2010 in support of the Assembly Majority\'s Fiscal Year 2010-11 budget resolution.</strong><br>\"The most important thing we do in this body is what we do for children, for the future.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![Less harm to schools](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso2.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso2.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<strong>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor March 24, 2010 in support of the Assembly Majority\'s Fiscal Year 2010-11 budget resolution.</strong><br>\"If you do damage to education, you are damaging the future, and that is something that I could not think of.\"<br><a href=\"/member_files/071/2009_WAM/\">View Chairman Farrell\'s Statement</a>', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![Hard budget choices](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso3.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso3.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<strong>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor March 24, 2010 in support of the Assembly Majority\'s Fiscal Year 2010-11 budget resolution.</strong><br>\"Some of the things we did here we would have preferred not to have had to do them. But the votes say that we had to do them.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}
![A responsible budget](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso4.jpg', '/member_files/071/vidclips/BudgetReso4.flv', true, 320, 240, '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', '<strong>Assemblyman Farrell speaking on the floor March 24, 2010 in support of the Assembly Majority\'s Fiscal Year 2010-11 budget resolution.</strong><br>\"We\'re going to discuss it and we\'re going to work together -- everybody -- to make sure that we have a bill that does meet that requirement of being responsible.\"', 'vidcap', browser);){kind=small}