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Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Preventing Child Abuse and Improving Responses to Families in Crisis - Nov. 5, 2009
November 5, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing to examine best practices to prevent child abuse and neglect, as well as how to strengthen and improve services for families in crisis. Good morning. I would like to welcome our witnesses to this hearing. Today, we are dealing with a very difficult and upsetting subject--abuse and neglect--and we know sometimes, unfortunately, it results in fatalities. We will hear from witnesses on how to improve response for and prevent violence and abuse in […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Improving Child Nutrition Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity - May 14, 2009
May 14, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing regarding Improving child nutrition programs to reduce childhood obesity. I would like to welcome our witnesses to this hearing on how we can reduce childhood obesity through the Child Nutrition Reauthorization. As a nurse for over 30 years, I have seen firsthand the risks of illness that can result from obesity. In the last several months, I have read the studies that one in five 4-year-olds are obese, that kids have the arteries […]
Condoleezza Rice
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2012 Republican National Committee - August 29, 2012
August 29, 2012
Good evening. Good evening, distinguished delegates. Good evening, fellow Republicans. Good evening, my fellow Americans. We gather here at a time of significance and challenge. This young century has been a difficult one. I can remember as if it were yesterday when my young assistants came into my office at the White House to say that a plane had hit the World Trade Center, and then, a second plane, and then a third plane, the Pentagon. And later, we would learn that a plane had crashed into a field in […]
Susana Martinez
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2012 Republican National Convention - Aug. 29, 2012
August 29, 2012
Thank you and good evening. Before I begin tonight, let’s keep in our prayers the families impacted by the storm affecting the Gulf Coast. If you haven’t done so already, please donate to the Red Cross. To find out more about how you can help those affected by Hurricane Isaac, please visit redcross.org/give. I am Susana Martinez. On behalf of the great state of New Mexico, let me express my gratitude for being invited to speak tonight. Growing up, I never imagined a little girl from a border town could […]
Deb Fischer
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2012 Republican National Convention - Aug. 28, 2012
August 28, 2012
Thank you. I'm not your usual politician. I'm a wife. I'm a mother of three grown sons. I’m a rancher, a small business owner and a citizen-legislator. Becoming a U.S. senator was never an ambition of mine. But over the last four years, I've become very dismayed with the record spending, the record debt, and the record unemployment. The Obama administration has been out of touch with the American people, and they've driven our country towards the edge of a fiscal cliff. We're on track to become the first generation […]
Nikki Haley
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2012 Republican National Convention - Aug. 28, 2012
August 28, 2012
I love South Carolina. I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who reminded my brothers, my sister and me every single day how blessed we were to live in this country. They loved the fact that only in America, we could be as successful as we wanted to be and nothing would stand in our way. My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. But there wasn't a single day that it was easy […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program - Dec. 12, 2007
December 12, 2007
Rep. McCarthy gives her opening statement at a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities hearing concerning the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. I want to thank everyone here for coming. We will be discussing a very serious issue facing our low-income families. With energy costs consistently on the rise, more and more families must make the tough decision on whether to heat their homes or put food on the table. This morning, I met with a group from Island Harvest, […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Juvenile Justice - July 12, 2007
July 12, 2007
Rep. McCarthy gives her opening statement at a Joint Hearing of the Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and the Judiciary Committee Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee concerning juvenile justice. I am pleased to welcome all of you to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities joint hearing with the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, chaired by my colleague, Representative Bobby Scott from Virginia. We appreciate the subcommittee's participation today and his personal desire to demonstrate the importance of the Juvenile […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
National Service - May 8, 2007
May 8, 2007
Rep. McCarthy, chairwoman of the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities, gives her opening statement at a subcommittee hearing on national and community service. I am really pleased that the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee is holding its second hearing on national service during National Volunteer Week. Congress celebrated National Volunteer Week through a resolution introduced by my colleague, the gentlewoman from New Hampshire, Congresswoman Shea-Porter, and passed by a floor vote yesterday. I hope that during this week there are celebrations of volunteering […]
Jan Schakowsky
Speeches
Remarks at the 2014 Ultimate Women's Power Lunch - May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014
My dear sisters and secure brothers, This is an election year – or as some say, an off-year election, meaning that there is no Presidential race, and many of the pundits have concluded that turnout, especially of Democrats, will be down, so the Senate is likely to go Republican and Nancy Pelosi will not be the Speaker of the House. Need I tell you – elections really matter, especially for women. So the mostly male pundits are pontificating with some gloomy projections – But I’d rather ask you, the ultimate […]