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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 […]
Allyson Schwartz
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention - Sept. 4, 2012
September 4, 2012
I'm Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Moving America forward means never going backward on America's great promise of health care for our seniors: Medicare. As a daughter who cared for an elderly parent, I know medical care is not optional for our seniors. We will not let the Republicans end the guarantee of Medicare, which could cost seniors thousands and endanger the health and retirement security of millions of Americans. Americans have worked for their Medicare. They have paid for their Medicare. Whether you are 65, […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Examining Innovative Practices to Improve Child Nutrition - Oct. 8, 2009
October 8, 2009
Rep. McCarthy delivers her opening statement at a hearing before the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities called Examining Innovative Practices to Improve Child Nutrition. Number one, I would like to welcome everybody. Today we will examine innovative practices which will help increase access to child nutrition programs and to more healthy food for our children in our schools. Increased access for our schoolchildren is a critical issue as we move forward in work on the child nutrition reauthorization. Given the current harsh financial realities for many families in my […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Corporal Punishment in Schools and its Effect on Academic Success - April 15, 2010
April 15, 2010
Rep. McCarthy delivers her opening statement at a hearing before the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities called Corporal Punishment in Schools and Its Effect on Academic Success. First, I would like to thank all of our witnesses for being here today. We have assembled a very knowledgeable group. They bring their personal experience and a wealth of information from research and work in the field. Congress has not held a hearing on the use of paddling in schools since 1992. Corporal punishment refers to the application of physical pain […]
Phyllis Schlafly
Speeches
What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? - 1972
January 1, 1972
This speech began as an 1972 essay in Schlafly's newsletter The Phyllis Schlafly Report, but was adapted for speeches and debates on behalf of STOP ERA, a group founded by Schlafly. Of all the classes of people who ever lived, the American woman is the most privileged. We have the most rights and rewards, and the fewest duties. Our unique status is the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances. 1) We have the immense good fortune to live in a civilization which respects the family as the basic unit […]
Phyllis Schlafly
categories: Interview, Radio address, Speeches
Interview with Michel Martin on NPR - March 30, 2011
March 30, 2011
As part of Tell Me More's focus on Women's History Month, host NPR Michel Martin interviewed Phyllis Schlafly. I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Now we go to our Wisdom Watch conversation. That's the part of the program where we talk to those who've made a difference in their work. In honor of Women's History Month, we've been putting a special emphasis on women who've made a difference. And my guest today is conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly. She is a mother of six, a […]