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Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Lost Educational Opportunities - March 12, 2009
March 12, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing regarding lost educational opportunities in alternative settings. I would like to thank you all for being here today. And I thank you for traveling and spending the time with us. I think it is very important. The testimony that we heard, or I should say read, is very interesting. And I was meeting with my National PTA people upstairs before I came down here, and one of things that was on their agenda […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Preventing Child Abuse and Improving Responses to Families in Crisis - Nov. 5, 2009
November 5, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing to examine best practices to prevent child abuse and neglect, as well as how to strengthen and improve services for families in crisis. Good morning. I would like to welcome our witnesses to this hearing. Today, we are dealing with a very difficult and upsetting subject--abuse and neglect--and we know sometimes, unfortunately, it results in fatalities. We will hear from witnesses on how to improve response for and prevent violence and abuse in […]
Carolyn McCarthy
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Improving Child Nutrition Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity - May 14, 2009
May 14, 2009
Rep. McCarthy, chair of the Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, delivers her opening statement at a hearing regarding Improving child nutrition programs to reduce childhood obesity. I would like to welcome our witnesses to this hearing on how we can reduce childhood obesity through the Child Nutrition Reauthorization. As a nurse for over 30 years, I have seen firsthand the risks of illness that can result from obesity. In the last several months, I have read the studies that one in five 4-year-olds are obese, that kids have the arteries […]
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 […]
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 […]