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Marcia L Fudge
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Launching New Affordable Health Care - Oct. 29, 2009
October 29, 2009
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act will revolutionize healthcare for women. Ending the discrimination we face under our current system. More than 14 million American women who have purchased health insurance in the private market last year paid up to 48 percent more in premium costs than men. Insurance companies routinely practice what they call gender rating, and that permits them to charge men and women different premiums for the very same coverage. America’s Affordable Health Choices Act will make gender rating illegal. Never again. Never again will insurance companies be […]
Lucille Roybal-Allard
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Against the Republican 2012 Budget Plan - Apr. 6, 2011
April 6, 2011
Let me begin by associating myself with comments that were made by previous speakers about the leadership of Jan Schakowsky and Doris Matsui on this very critical issue of seniors, and to join in thanking them for having this press conference and highlighting the Republican assault on America’s seniors. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I have gained an appreciation for the fact that the federal budget is about much more than just dollars and cents. It is a moral document that reflects our priorities and our values. The […]
Eleanor Holmes Norton
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Speaking Out Against HR3 - Feb. 8, 2011
February 8, 2011
What you have heard already should be enough to inform you that this is the harshest anti-choice bill ever introduced into Congress. So, you would imagine that there is no way to make it any harsher. Well, Republicans have found just such a way. They have targeted my own district specifically. I am going to ask Chairman Nadler at 4 o’clock to put into the record my protest that I have been denied the right to testify about this bill even though the bill specifically targets my district. In two […]
Lynn Jenkins
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Taxes - March 19, 2013
March 19, 2013
As one of the few CPAs in this town, you’re going to be hard-pressed to find a bigger tax budget or economic geek than me. There is nothing that I enjoy more than having a discussion about debt-to-equity ratios and 302-B allocations and the difference between getting to primary balance as opposed to actually balancing the budget. I’ve been told that normal people don’t enjoy those discussions. I can tell you one thing that normal people do have in common with me, and that is I think that they agree […]
Barbara Lee
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Opposing the Debt Deal - Aug. 1, 2011
August 1, 2011
Let me thank you for your leadership and Congressman Ellison for bringing together the Progressive Caucus to once again come forward and be the voice of the American people. None of us want to see our nation default, but after having reviewed this deal in detail, for a number of reasons I am simply unable to support it. I associate myself with all of the remarks that have been made already. It totally fails to address the urgent and most pressing crises in our country: the lack of jobs and […]
Marsha Blackburn
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Small Business Tax Cuts - April 19, 2012
April 19, 2012
Good morning. It is a great day to be cutting taxes, and we are thrilled that House Republicans are going to go to the floor, and we're going to pass a reduction in taxes…. Make a cut…. And this is what the American people are wanting to see. Kevin referenced the moms and pops that are going to benefit from this because, when you make that 20-percent cut, what you're going to do is give them the ability to hang onto more of their money. As my small business owners […]
Donna Christensen
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Supporting the Affordable Health Care Act - July 22, 2009
July 22, 2009
Thank you. I'm Donna Christensen. I'm a family physician, and I serve here in the Congress. Thank you, Chairman Larson, for your strong leadership and support for historic change in reforming our dysfunctional and broken healthcare system and to bring equality, comprehensive, and culturally and linguistically appropriate care to every person in this country. I'm proud to be here with my colleagues Nurse Capps, Psychologist Dr. Chu, as well as my fellow physicians—Dr. McDermott, Dr. Snyder, Dr. Kagen—and the others who have joined us…all of the doctors and nurses who've […]
Michele M Bachmann
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Breast Cancer Prevention and Health Care Reform - Nov. 18, 2009
November 18, 2009
Michelle Bachmann, Minnesota 6th Congressional District. It's really interesting how we've seen the debate go forward on health care reform with both President Obama and with Speaker Pelosi. Very early on in this effort, they said that a lot of the cost-saving would occur with prevention. They wanted to have more preventative methods taken in terms of health care. So it's interesting that the United States Preventative Services Tax Force now is encouraging women, as my colleagues have said, to wait another decade before they begin mammograms. I spoke with […]
Shelley Moore Capito
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Fiscal Responsibility - March 17, 2009
March 17, 2009
Good morning. I'm Shelley Moore Capito. I represent the second district of West Virginia, and I'm pleased to be here this morning. I'm just returning from a week of being home and realizing that West Virginians and the American people, they get it. They get overspending. They get generational debt. They get the fact that that we know that there are issues out there that they're struggling with. Losing jobs, having difficulty making those day-to-day obligations in their families…. So we have joined together to ask the president to allow […]
Shelley Moore Capito
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Speaker Pelosi's Health Care Bill - Nov. 6, 2009
November 6, 2009
Thank you. I'd like to talk about an aspect of this bill—the Pelosi bill—that I find deeply troubling because of the news that we found out this morning, and that is that our unemployment has gone up to 10.2 percent, and 190,000 people have lost their jobs in the last month. That's a family tragedy for those families who are suffering right now. And they want us to listen to what they're saying, and what they're saying is, "We want a full and vibrant economy that's going to create jobs." […]