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Kim Reynolds
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Coronavirus Update – April 21, 2020
April 21, 2020
Okay. Good morning, we’ll go ahead and start the press conference with an update on the numbers. Today, we had 482 new positive cases for a total of 3,641 positive cases. 33% of today’s positive cases are related to the surveillance testing that has been done at the meat processing facilities. We have two new counties, Cherokee and Humble, for a total of 84 countries. We had 1,331 negative cases for a total of 23,974 negative cases. We’ve tested 27,615 Iowans for a per capita test of 1 out of […]
Kim Reynolds
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Coronavirus Update – April 20, 2020
April 20, 2020
Okay we’ll go ahead and get this started this morning, and of course we’ll start with an update on the numbers. Today, we have 257 new positive cases for a total of 3,159 positive cases. We have no new counties to report, so we have, still, 82 total counties in the state of Iowa. We have 1,013 negative cases today, for a total of 22,661 negative tests. The State Hygienic Lab has 7,556 tests available. We have 1,235 Iowans that have recovered for a recovery rate of 39%. I am […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Speeches
Seneca Falls: 150 Years Later - July 16, 1998
July 16, 1998
Clinton delivered this address to an audience of 16,000 at the 150th anniversary of the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. I WOULD LIKE YOU to take your minds back a hundred and fifty years. Imagine if you will that you are Charlotte Woodward, a nineteen-year-old glove maker working and living in Waterloo. Every day you sit for hours sewing gloves together, working for small wages you cannot even keep, with no hope of going on in school or owning property, knowing that if you marry, your […]
Pat Schroeder
Speeches
You Can Do It – Feb. 9, 1973
February 9, 1973
Schroeder delivered this speech to the National Women’s Political Caucus in Houston, Texas. Senator Robert Kennedy once said of his brother, John, after the President’s assassination, “If there is a lesson from his life and death, it is that in this world of ours, we can no longer be satisfied with being mere spectators, critics on the sidelines.” And surely that must be the continuing message for all of us here today. Women especially can no longer be mere spectators of the political process, critics on the sidelines; but active […]
Betty Friedan
Speeches
Abortion: A Woman's Civil Right – Feb. 16, 1969
February 16, 1969
Friedan delivered this speech at the First National Conference on Abortion Laws: Modification or Repeal, where the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) was established. Women, EVEN THOUGH they’re almost too visible as sex objects in this country, are invisible people. As the Negro was the invisible man, so women are the invisible people in America today: women who have a share in the decisions of the mainstream of government, of politics, of the church—who don’t just cook the church supper, but preach the sermon; who don’t […]
Angelina Grimké Weld
categories: Floor Speech - State Legislature, Speeches
Address to the Massachusetts Legislature - Feb. 21, 1838
February 21, 1838
With this address to the Massachusetts legislature, Grimké became the first woman to speak before an American legislative body. Mr. Chairman— More than 2,000 years have rolled their dark and bloody waters down the rocky, winding channel of time into the broad ocean of Eternity, since woman’s voice was heard in the palace of an eastern monarch, and woman’s petition achieved the salvation of millions of her race from the edge of the sword. The Queen of Persia, if Queen she might be called, who was but the mistress of […]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Remarks on impeachment of Donald J. Trump - Jan. 13, 2021
January 13, 2021
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise to support the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump for seditious acts against America. To overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump incited a violent assault on Congress – a treasonous betrayal of our nation. This criminal incitement left us with five dead including a police officer, a desecrated Capitol, and a second constitutional crisis. His acts show contempt for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the foundation of any democracy: a peaceful transition of power. President Trump is a clear and present danger […]
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Remarks on impeachment of Donald J. Trump - Jan. 13, 2021
January 13, 2021
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise today in support of the article of impeachment and in opposition to the gaslighting that is masquerading as debate in this chamber today. I was in this chamber when the President assembled and unleashed a mob to attack the United States Capitol and the United States Congress—the elected representatives of the people. By doing so, he incited an insurrection against our representative democracy itself. If that is not an impeachable offense, then what is? Thank you, Madam Speaker, I yield back. Fletcher, L. P. […]
Lucy McBath
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Remarks on impeachment of Donald J. Trump - Jan. 13, 2021
January 13, 2021
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise with a heavy heart for what our nation has endured. All those who’ve incited an attack on these halls of freedom must never forget that in every generation, Americans of all colors and creeds have laid down their lives in the struggles against tyranny, the fight against fascism, and the defense against those who would betray the values upon which this nation was founded. It is our duty to shoulder that defense of democracy here today. The President's actions have laid bare his contempt […]
Madeleine Dean
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. House, Speeches
Remarks on impeachment of Donald J. Trump - Jan. 13, 2021
January 13, 2021
Madam Speaker, one week ago today, I was trapped in this House Chamber as the banging on the doors began. I feared for colleagues, reporters, and staff. I feared for myself. The attack on the Capitol will never be forgotten. The President and many in this Chamber have shamelessly peddled dangerous untruths about the election, despite the warnings of where those lies would lead. And last Wednesday, those lies and dangers found themselves inside this Capitol. This hateful rhetoric is another deadly virus. It is time to remove it from […]