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Martha McSally
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
A More Dangerous World than I've Ever Seen - Jul. 15, 2015
July 15, 2015
Thank you Madam Chair, and I really appreciate you organizing this, so that the women in our conference can speak about something that is vitally important to our communities. I’ll tell you, everywhere I go in my district my constituents are concerned about the security of our nation, and making sure that our men and women in uniform have everything they need in order to defend America. Having served 26 years in uniform myself, I'm representing a district eighty-five thousand veterans and two military bases. Right now we have over […]
Angela D Merkel
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Address to the UK Parliament- Feb. 27, 2014
February 27, 2014
As delivered Mr Speaker, Lord Speaker, Prime Minister, Members of Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to thank both Houses of Parliament most sincerely for allowing me to stand before you today. I am aware of the very great honor bestowed on me: I am the third representative of the Federal Republic of Germany, following Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1970 and German Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in 1986, to speak to you I regard this invitation as an expression of the close relations between […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
Stand up to Right-Wing Assault on Women's Reproductive Rights Sept. 21, 2015
September 21, 2015
I'll be honest. I am deep down furious at the Republicans' scheme to defund Planned Parenthood. I didn't think that the Republican leadership could sink any lower than trying to defund women's cancer screenings and access to birth control, but then I saw the bill that were voting on tomorrow and I felt sick to my stomach. Here we are just days away from another reckless Republican government shutdown, and the Republicans think the best use of our time is to vote on a bill to give the government the […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
It's Time for Congress to Work for the American People, Not the NRA Oct. 8, 2015
October 8, 2015
Mister President, for twenty years one of the biggest billboards in America was next to Fenway Park, facing the Massachusetts Turnpike. It had a giant number counter on it, and when I was running for the Senate in 2012, I would drive past a billboard sometimes three or four times a day. And each time, I would look up at the counter to see how it changed since the last trip. Up two, up six, up 12. The billboard was from Stop Handgun Violence, and it showed the number of […]
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Speeches
Cathy McMorris Rodgers Supports H.R. 36- May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015
Madam Speaker, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are the rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The bill before the house today affirms what a majority of Americans believes. That over halfway through a pregnancy, an unborn baby deserves the full protection of the law and the constitution. As a mother of three and a legislator, I have always believed that every life has value. […]
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Speeches
One-Minute of the Week- April 17, 2015
April 15, 2015
Thank you Mr. Chair. Today is Tax Day, April 15th. And one of the things that I wanted to bring attention to this committee really is the amount of waste and abuse that takes place, not only within the bloated federal government, within the IRS. I serve as the vice chair of financial services oversight committee on the appropriations committee, and on this last go around, we reduced, cut actually, by about one hundred to three million dollars, right? The IRS commissioner was before us to tell us that was […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Women for Hillary Clinton Launch - Sept. 16, 2015
September 16, 2015
Thank you so much! I am so thrilled to be here, back in New Hampshire. Here for Women for Hillary, I really like the sound of that, and I'm so proud to be here with one of New Hampshire's finest public servants, my friend, and yours, Jeanne Shaheen. Talk about a great women leader, well Jeanne Shaheen is not only New Hampshire's first woman senator, she's not only New Hampshire's first woman elected governor, she's also the first and only woman ever to serve as both senator and governor in […]
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Speeches
Weekly Republican Address- Aug. 1, 2015
August 1, 2015
Today I would like to share with you some good news about the progress that Congress is making for every American. From the start, our focus has been your priorities. So instead of top-down bureaucrats picking winners and losers, our goal is an opportunity economy, built on good paying jobs, and the freedom to innovate. Instead of the same old outdated models in Washington D.C., we’re working on solutions that empower you to achieve a better life. Already, we’ve enacted the first real entitlement reform, in nearly two decades. Now […]
Diane Black
Speeches
One-Minute of the Week- Feb. 2, 2015
February 13, 2015
Mr. Speaker, In the President's state of the union address, he declared the need for 21st century infrastructure. With today's legislation complete, the Keystone Pipeline, we are offering him an infrastructure bill that would create jobs, and promote energy security. In this study, from the president's own state department, says that Keystone will create about 42,000 jobs, and generate about two billion dollars in earnings. All while imposing a negligible environmental impact. This project has been waiting for approval for more than 2,300 days. The Nebraska Supreme Court struck down […]
Carly Fiorina
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Campaign Speech in Phoenix- Sept. 11, 2015
September 11, 2015
Thank you so much! Republican women I salute you, and the few men I see here too. Ladies, look at this face. This is the face of a 61 year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every wrinkle. Look at all of your faces. The face of leadership, the face of leadership in our party, the party of woman's suffrage. The face of leadership in your communities, in your businesses, in your places of work and worship. Ladies, note to Democrat Party, we are not a special interest […]