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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 […]
Allyson Schwartz
Speeches
Hearing on the Status of the Affordable Care Act Implementation - Oct. 29, 2013
November 29, 2013
Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz (PA-13) delivered the following opening statement a Ways and Means Committee hearing on the status of the Affordable Care Act implementation. Thank you and thanks for this opportunity, and thank you for being here. The purpose of this hearing is to really acknowledge the difficulties and deeply troubling initial rollout of the website that is supposed to enable all our constituents and American access health care coverage in these health care marketplaces. The fact is, and you acknowledge some of this, there have been inexcusable and […]
Nita M Lowey
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Statement at IRS Oversight Hearing - June 3, 2013
June 3, 2013
Remarks at a hearing of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Appropriations. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to join you in welcoming Acting Commissioner Werfel and J. Russell George here today. We thank you and we look forward to your testimony, and I would like to thank, again, Chairman Crenshaw and Ranking Member Serrano for holding this very important hearing. We know that the IRS is the first line of defense in ensuring that hard earned tax dollars of American citizens are appropriately handled, and as […]
Nita M Lowey
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
It's Time to Overturn the Defense of Marriage Act - March 14, 2013
March 14, 2013
Remarks at a House Appropriations Committee hearing. Thank you very much. And then I just have one other comment that I want to share with you. This month you will hear cases that are of the utmost importance to many American families, that is whether gay Americans have the same constitutional rights to marry as straight couples, and whether Congress can deprive legally married gay couples of Federal recognition and benefits. I mention this not because I expect either of you to speak to this issue. In fact, I know […]
Linda Sánchez
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Congress Should Protect Cyberbully Victims - Sept. 30, 2009
September 30, 2009
Rep. Linda Sanchez testified before a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on her bill, H.R. 1966, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, and why Congress should act to protect victims who are bullied online. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Gohmert, for allowing me the opportunity to testify today about this piece of legislation. I am pleased to be here talking about the critical issue of child online safety because it is a relatively new form for Congress to be grappling with. When I was first elected to Congress, I held […]