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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
EARLY Act Press Conference - Feb. 16, 2010
February 16, 2010
We are here today to announce the introduction of the Early Act: The Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 2009. The Early Act is designed to empower young women to learn the facts, know their bodies, speak up for their health, and embrace support. Despite the perception, young women can and do get breast cancer. More than 10,000 women under 40 are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the United States. Although the incidence of breast cancer in young women is much lower than that […]
Coretta Scott King
categories: Press Conference, Speeches
Remarks on the Introduction of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 - June 23, 1994
June 23, 1994
Thank you for your gracious introduction. And I want to thank all the members of the press for joining us today for this important press conference on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994. Senator Chaffe; Senator Kennedy; Representatives Edwards, Frank, Studds, and Morella; Distinguished Guests; members of the press. Today I am proud to join in supporting this much-needed legislation, which would provide some long-overdue protection to American workers from the injustice of discrimination based on sexual orientation. I support this legislation because lesbian and gay people are a permanent […]