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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 […]
Debbie Dingell
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Dingell Fights to Protect Americans from Terrorist Attacks & Cyber Attacks - June 16, 2015
June 15, 2015
Mr. Speaker, it is very timely that we are considering the Intelligence Authorization bill today, as there have been several troubling incidents that require an immediate response by Congress. I know that members on both sides of the aisle care deeply about both airport security and cybersecurity and we agree that Congress must do everything possible to keep the American people safe. “Last week we learned that there were 73 people employed at airports across the country that should have been disqualified for employment because they are on a terrorist […]
Joyce Beatty
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Beatty Urges Action to Prevent Gun Violence- Jan. 12, 2016
January 12, 2016
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise this evening proud to stand with my Congressional Black Caucus, special order our co-anchor Congressman Jeffries from the 8th Congressional District of New York. Mr. Jefferies, it is my honor to stand here today. As we undertake an urgent dialogue on how we as elected representatives of the people can work together to end gun violence. I look forward to engaging with Congressman Jeffries in our Congressional Black Caucus colleagues, in scholarly debate on the issues plaguing African-Americans, African-American communities and to develop solutions […]
Ann Wagner
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Planned Parenthood - July 21, 2015
July 21, 2015
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my continued outrage at now two abhorrent videos that have been released in the last week, in which two of Planned Parenthood’s senior doctors describe the process by which they and their coworkers kill unborn children and harvest their organs for sale. Like many Americans, I was shocked not only by what I learned about Planned Parenthood’s standard practices, but by the cold, callous indifference in which Dr. Deborah Nucatola and Dr. Mary Gatter, detailed the barbaric murder of society’s most vulnerable children. […]
Nancy Pelosi
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Calling on House Republicans to Pass a Jobs Bill- March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on the floor today, we’ve heard from some of our colleagues in the majority, starting with the Speaker of the House, demand that the President work with Congress to create jobs and grow the economy. If Republicans were willing to spend time on these issues that would really be good news. I think there is a really, it’s necessary for us to have a reality check. In the sixth months of this Congress with the Republicans in the majority, there has been […]
Julia Brownley
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Women & long-term unemployment - March 13, 2014
March 13, 2014
Mr. Speaker, this Women's History Month, we learned that women continue to struggle with long-term unemployment. In fact, long-term unemployment among women increased from 34.8 percent in January to 37.7 percent in February. According to a recent Pew Research Center study, women are the sole or primary breadwinner in 4 in every 10 American households with children. When women who have jobs only receive 77 cents to every dollar a man makes, when 70 percent of Americans in poverty are women and children, in a country where women, out of […]
Jackie Speier
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In Support of Planned Parenthood - Feb. 17, 2011
February 17, 2011
Mr. Chairman, I had really planned to speak about something else, but the gentleman from New Jersey has just put my stomach in knots, because I'm one of those women he spoke about just now. I had a procedure at 17 weeks, pregnant with a child that had moved from the vagina into the cervix, and that procedure that you just talked about was a procedure that I endured. I lost the baby. But for you to stand on this floor and to suggest as you have that somehow this […]