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Tulsi Gabbard
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Veterans Celebration - March 31, 2012
March 31, 2012
Just by way of introduction briefly, my name is Tulsi Gabbard. I currently serve on the Honolulu city council and also am a candidate for Congress. I am also a captain in the Hawaii Army National guard and have served on two deployments for the 29th brigade combat team to the Middle East. I see my Sergeant Major here from the first deployment, who I haven’t seen for a few years, and it’s this kind of connection and these kind of days that are really so special to me and […]
Susan Collins
Speeches
Weekly Republican Address - Aug. 3, 2013
August 3, 2013
Hello. I’m Senator Susan Collins from Maine. My family founded a small business in northern Maine more than 160 years ago. Today, it continues to be run by two of my brothers. Our economy is built on millions of enterprises just like ours. It’s not easy to survive in today’s economy. But these employers remain our nation’s job creators. We should be doing all we can to promote policies to help them survive and thrive. Effective health-care reform should provide Americans with access to quality and affordable care while also […]
Tulsi Gabbard
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Endorsed by VoteVets.org - Feb. 9, 2014
February 9, 2014
GABBARD: First of all I just want to say thank you so much to my fellow veterans here who've come out today in support of my candidacy for Congress. I’m also very excited to announce the endorsement of VoteVets.org which is one of the leading advocacy organizations for veterans across the country. RYAN SOON: My name is Ryan Soon, and I am a veteran of the Global War on Terrorism with three deployments to Iraq and Kuwait. As a veteran, I experienced first-hand as well as through various service member […]
Mary Fisher
Speeches
A Whisper of AIDs - Aug. 19, 1992
August 19, 1992
Less than three months ago, at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV/AIDS. I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end. I bear a message of challenge, not self-congratulation. I want your attention, not your applause. I would never have asked to be HIV-positive. But I believe that in all things there is a good purpose, and I stand before you and before the nation, gladly. The reality […]
Nikki Haley
categories: Speeches, State of State
State of the State - Jan. 22, 2014
January 22, 2014
As prepared for delivery. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the General Assembly, Constitutional Officers, and my fellow South Carolinians: Let us start tonight, as we have rightfully done in the past, by honoring those heroes we lost over the last year. It is my sincere prayer that a year will come that there are no names for us to read. So now, please join me as we pay tribute to those who gave the last full measure of devotion in the service of their state and country: […]
Kay Hagan
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2012 Democratic National Convention - Sept. 6, 2012
September 6, 2012
I want to welcome everyone to North Carolina. I hope those of you who are visiting us have had a chance to experience our beautiful state. Mostly I hope you've had a chance to visit with the wonderful people of North Carolina. North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state—by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path. I've seen those values in every corner of our […]
Zoe Lofgren
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening statement to oversight hearing of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - July 29, 2014
July 29, 2014
Thank you Mr. Chairman. Let me begin by welcoming our witness not only to today’s hearing, but also to his new position as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. I think it is fair to say that USCIS doesn’t usually get the kind of attention that the rest of the components of DHS do, but its mission is very important. As we know, USCIS adjudicates a wide array of immigrant and non-immigrant petitions. Families hoping to reunite, businesses searching for talent, persons fleeing persecution and torture, lawful permanent residents […]
Julia Brownley
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
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 […]
Emma Watson
Speeches
HeForShe U.N. speech - Sept. 21, 2014
September 21, 2014
Your excellencies, U.N. Secretary General, President of the General Assembly, Executive Director of U.N. Women and distinguished guests. Today, we are launching a campaign called HeForShe. I am reaching out to you because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality and to do this we need everyone involved. This is the first campaign of its kind at the U.N. We want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We […]
Jackie Speier
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
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 […]