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Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Second Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 13, 2022
June 13, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Last week, as the Chairman noted, our Committee began outlining a seven part plan overseen by President Trump to overturn the 2020 election. Today, we will begin looking at the initial part of that plan: President Trump’s effort to convince millions of Americans that the election was stolen from him by overwhelming fraud. A federal court has already reviewed elements of the Committee’s evidence on this point, and said this: [quote] “In the months following the election, numerous credible sources – from the President’s […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the First Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 9, 2022
June 9, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And let me echo those words about the importance of bipartisanship, and what a tremendous honor it is to work on this committee. Mr. Chairman, at 6:01pm on January 6th, after he spent hours watching a violent mob besiege, attack and invade our Capitol, Donald Trump tweeted. But he did not condemn the attack. Instead he justified it: "These are the things and events that happen,” he said, “when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots […]
Ayanna Pressley
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Questioning of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy - Feb. 24, 2021
February 24, 2021
[Pressley] While some of our colleagues might use this hearing to continue to gaslight and mislead our constituents, I am here to get to the truth. The American people deserve that. To direct the systemic slowdown of mail delivery during a pandemic, within months of national elections is incomprehensible. At best, these actions represent irresponsible leadership from a notice who has absolutely no business leading a government agency. At worse, they are cruel, unethical, and anti-democratic. And this is certainly no way to repay the 600,000 dedicated and brave employees […]
Debra Haaland
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Secretary of Interior Nominee Opening Statement - Feb. 23, 2021
February 23, 2021
[Indigenous language greeting]. Chairman Manchin, ranking member Barrasso, members of the committee – thank you so much for having me here today. I wouldn’t be here without the love and support of my child, Soma, my partner, Skip – who is with me this morning, sitting behind me – my mom, Mara Toya, who’s watching from Isleta Pueblo, my extend family, and generations of ancestors who sacrificed so much so I could be here today. I acknowledge that we are on the ancestral homelands of the Nacotchtank, Anacostan, and Piscataway […]
Jane Addams
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Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I had the honor of appearing before you last August as woman voter when you very kindly received the delegation of woman voters who were meeting here in Washington. With your permission I will refer to a little discussion at that time and to a point which the committee made and which seemed to me at the moment well taken, that the Rules Committee had no power to appoint a committee on woman 's suffrage because of the fact that Congress did not […]
Ida Husted Harper
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Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Gentlemen, this is not the time or place to enter into an argument on the merits or demerits of woman suffrage, and we shall use the valuable hours you have so graciously accorded us simply to ask that you will give us a committee of our very own, before which we may feel that we have a right to discuss this question. In making this request we ask you to decide, first, whether the issue of woman suffrage is sufficiently national in its character to justify a special committee for […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
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Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Rules Committee, as I understand it, this hearing is not to be a forum for the discussion of the general question of woman suffrage but is to be confined to the one point for which this committee has appointed this time for discussion, namely, whether or not the Rules Committee shall recommend to Congress the appointment of a committee on woman suffrage for the House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be to give such of its time and attention to this question as […]
Anna Howard Shaw
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Statement at a Hearing before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage - Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in closing what we women have to say to you this morning in our own behalf, I am not going to make an argument, but to recall to your minds again, as Miss Anthony did in the beginning, that for thirty-two years we have been coming before your honorable body asking 36 that your committee shall report to the honorable Senate of the United States a bill for a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution. Miss Anthony gave you the reasons why we want […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary - Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, we have with us a delegate from England who was to have spoken this morning and who will undoubtedly arrive later but who is not here now. I have a favor to ask of this committee in an official capacity. It is something we have never asked before. We realize full well, and understand enough of human nature to know, that it is not a question of the actual merit of woman suffrage which must be considered by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
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The Indifference of Women - Feb. 15, 1898
February 15, 1898
Blackwell gave this speech at a hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives. It is often said that the chief obstacle to equal suffrage is the indifference and opposition of women, and that whenever the majority of women ask for the ballot they will get it. But it is a simple historical fact that every improvement thus far made in the condition of women has been secured, not by a general demand from the majority of women, but by the arguments, entreaties, and “continual […]