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Margaret Chase Smith
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Declaration of Conscience - June 1, 1950
June 1, 1950
Mr. President: I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear. It is a condition that comes from the lack of effective leadership in either the Legislative Branch or the Executive Branch of our Government. That leadership is so lacking that serious and responsible proposals are being made that national advisory commissions be appointed to provide such critically needed leadership. I […]
Louise M Slaughter
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Condemning President Bush's Stem Cell Veto -June 19, 2006
July 19, 2006
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman, and especially appreciate the good work that she and Mr. Castle have done. With the President's action today, and he always keeps his word, he condemned tens of millions of Americans and their families and everybody who loves them to suffer needlessly, and all the while they know their government, when given the opportunity to help, decided to do nothing. I remember this kind of mugwumpery before. I remember when organ transplants came about. Everybody said, oh, no, we can't do that. If God […]
Betty S Sutton
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Federal Budget - March 28, 2007
March 28, 2007
I yield myself such time as I may consume and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. I also ask unanimous consent that all Members be given five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on House Resolution 275. Mr. Speaker. H.Res. 275provides for consideration of H.Con.Res. 99, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 2008, under a structured rule. The rule provides for four hours of general debate, three to be controlled by the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on the […]
Maxine Waters
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War in Iraq - March 18, 2002
March 18, 2002
On Tuesday, March 18, 2002, Congresswoman Maxine Waters delivered the following speech on the pending war in Iraq: Mr. Speaker, to the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings), I want to thank him for taking time out in the schedule of the Congress of the United States to allow the members of the Congressional Black Caucus to take the floor to talk about our concerns and to describe our feelings about the preemptive strike that we are poised to carry out as we stand […]
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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The Civil Rights Act of 1997- June 26, 1997
June 26, 1997
For more than three centuries, in one form or another, race has been both this country's deepest flaw and its cheapest shot. Every period has produced its own version of each, depending upon the quality of our leadership and the shape of events. Today, Presidential and Congressional leadership is once again being tested, but this time not on race alone but on gender and ethnicity as the country moves rapidly in becoming a multi-racial nation. Today I want to discuss H.R. 1909 and its potential effects on affirmative action. I […]
Stacey Plaskett
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Racial Disparity and Closing the Weath Gap in America - Feb. 2, 2016
February 2, 2016
Thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity to be here with my colleagues. I am so humbled and honored to be with the gentlewoman Joyce Beatty of Ohio, who is an example to us freshman, and who fights along with the gentleman of New York, Hakeem Jeffries, not just for the people of their district, and not just for African Americans, but for all Americans. Because that is what we are here in this congress to do. By pointing out the inequalities it’s not to cast dispersions to […]
Mary Jo Kilroy
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Breast Cancer Awareness- Oct. 7, 2009
October 7, 2009
I want to say thank you to both of my colleagues, Representative Myrick, with whom I have the great honor of serving as one of the co-Chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Cancer Caucus, and of course the gentlewoman from Florida for your strength as cancer survivors and for leadership on this issue. I am lucky, Representative Wasserman Schultz, to have you as a friend, and I appreciate very much the kind comments you made just a few minutes ago about me. You have taught me so much about this Chamber […]
Nan Hayworth
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Putting our Nation's Fiscal House in Order- Dec. 12, 2012
December 12, 2012
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the designation of the time and appreciate the opportunity to come to the floor tonight and discuss the issues, the very serious issues, that are in front of us. Now, this is something that we Republicans have talked about for quite a period of time that we had to get the Nation's fiscal house in order. The reason we had to do this was because we had a spending issue that was in front of us. Many of us felt that running deficits of several hundred […]
Frederica Wilson
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On the Shooting Death of Trayvon Martin - March 20, 2012
March 20, 2012
Mr. Speaker, I am tired of burying young black boys. I am tired of watching them suffer at the hands of those who fear them and despise them. I’m tired of comforting mothers, fathers, grandparents, sisters, and brothers after such unnecessary, heinous crimes of violence. In Florida, almost 3 years ago, as I served in the Florida senate, a young black boy, Martin Lee Anderson, was beaten to death at a Florida boot camp. It was all captured on a State of Florida Corrections video and shown all over the […]
Sheila Jackson Lee
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Providing Consideration of H.R. 1991, Smarter Solutions for Students Act- May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 1911, the Smarter Solutions for Students Act because this bill becoming law would be worse than allowing student loan interest rates to double on July 1, 2013. If Congress does nothing the student loan interest rate will rise from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1st. As Members of the Congress, we know what this will mean for students in our states and what it will mean for colleges and universities in our Congressional Districts. The bill H.R. 1911 does not […]