U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting

Helen Hamilton Gardener
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - March 3, 1914
March 3, 1914
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Judiciary Committee, in a published statement yesterday the Secretary of State, over his own signature, used these simple, .direct, easily understood words: All believers in a republic accept the doctrine that the government must derive its just powers from the consent of the governed, and the President gives every legitimate encouragement to those who represent this idea of government, while he discourages those who attempt to overthrow or ignore the principle of popular government. I am sure that all of us who know the […]
Crystal Eastman
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee - March 3, 1914
March 3, 1914
We have had a blizzard in in New York for the last two days, and the train has only just arrived that left New York at 12.34 last night. If that makes my opening words little flurried, please do not blame the cause. We are not before you to-day as supplicants, as powerless women petitioning your favor. We come as successful women asking in the friendliest spirit the logical, necessary, and inevitable extension of our success. To make myself quite clear I have brought along a few little maps which […]
Jane Addams
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement before the U.S. House Committee in Support of Disarmament - Jan. 13, 1916
January 13, 1916
United States House of Representatives Committee on Military Affairs, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session, on the Bill to Increase the Efficiency of the Military Establishment of the United States, Thursday, January 13, 1916 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1916): 201-213. The committee met at 10 o'clock a.m., Hon. James Hay (chairman) presiding. The Chairman. The committee will hear first this morning from Miss Jane Addams. Miss Addams. Mr. Chairman, I am speaking this morning as president of the Woman's Peace Party, and while I realize that it is more or less […]
Jane Addams
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement Before the U.S. House Committee on Military Affairs Regarding the Selective Service Act - April 12, 1917
April 12, 1917
Selective-Service Act. Hearings Before the House of Representatives Committee on Military Affairs, Sixty-Fifth Congress, First Session, on the Bill Authorizing the President to Increase Temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States, April 7, 9-11, 14 and 17, 1917 (Washington, D.C.: Washington Printing Office, 1917), pp. 238-240. Miss Addams. I simply want to say, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of this committee, that I am sure there is a good deal of feeling in this whole country against conscription. I have been in the South lately. I was sent South for […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Address before Congressional Hearing - April 20, 1917
April 20, 1917
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee on Woman Suffrage: The Senate Committee on woman suffrage was established in 1883. Thirty-four years have passed; seventeen Congresses have come and gone since then. In each Congress the National American Woman Suffrage Association through its representatives has appeared before this Committee and has appealed to it to urge the submission of a constitutional amendment to the legislatures of the several states. The stubborness of the prejudice against the application of the principle of self-government to women has been beyond understanding. Had there […]
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing on "American NGOs Under Attack in Morsi's Egypt" - June 12, 2013
June 12, 2013
Over two years ago the improbable happened. Millions of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square and streets all across Egypt demanding the end of the Hosni Mubarak regime and ushering in a new, democratic era; an era that would be free of government corruption and free of police brutality and an era that would allow all Egyptians to exercise their freedoms of speech, expression, assembly and religion. But as we all know, the transition to true democracy is often an arduous task that takes time and commitment, and it must be responsive […]
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing on "A Crisis Mismanaged: Obama's Failed Syria Policy" - June 5, 2013
June 5, 2013
It’s been over two years since the popular uprisings sparked up across Syria against al-Assad and his murderous regime. Amidst the backdrop of the Arab Spring, thousands of Syrians demonstrated against Assad calling for the despotic ruler to step down, to release political prisoners, and institute democratic reforms. These protesters were met swiftly with the harsh hand of Assad as he unleashed his police who doled out brutal beatings upon the demonstrators, resulting in many deaths. Now as we enter our third year of this conflict, the Assad regime has […]
Elizabeth Esty
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Introducing Newtown Superintendent Janet Robinson - Jan. 16, 2013
January 16, 2013
Thank you so much to my good friend, Rosa DeLauro, and thanks to you to all of you for being with us here today as witnesses to what happened in our community of Newtown, Connecticut, and as a call to action for what we must do as a country. I’m honored today to have the chance to introduce Janet Robinson, who has become a good friend, who is a true American hero who responded unbelievable tragedy. For five years, Dr. Janet Robinson has served as the superintendent of schools in […]
Julia Brownley
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act - July 18, 2013
July 18, 2013
Thank you, Chairman Miller and Ranking Member Michaud, for holding this important full Veterans Affairs Committee legislative hearing today. HR 806, the Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act, was the very first bill that I introduced as a new member of the 113th Congress. I'm grateful that the full committee is considering this important legislation. As ranking member of the Subcommittee on Health, I believe it's, as we all do, I believe it's vitally important to ensure adequate funding for veterans' healthcare programs. I am sure the committee knows in 2006, 2007, […]
Marcia L Fudge
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
House Hearing on Voter Suppression - Nov. 14, 2011
November 14, 2011
It is time that the American people hear from more than just us that there is a concerted effort across this country to limit, to suppress, and to undo our right to vote. It is deliberate and it is by design. From Ohio to Wisconsin down to Florida, across Texas…the franchise is under attack today in this country. A certain predetermined segment of Americans are being targeted: young people, the elderly, our disabled, our minorities will all feel the repercussions of this concerted effort. There’s nothing new about the tactics […]