Lead poisoning is a leading environmental health hazard to children in the United States.

Children from low-income families are 8 times more likely to be poisoned by lead than those from high income families.

There is no more chilling example of environmental injustice than concentrations of substandard housing in low-income urban neighborhoods.

Protecting at-risk children from lead hazards in their homes requires reintegrating housing into public health and environmental health practice.

I'm very pro-choice.

It's certainly an idea who's time has come. May The Haitian Times be around for many years to come.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Yves Colon and Garry Pierre-Pierre, two budding young Haitian-American journalists who will launch, later this week, a new weekly newspaper, The Haitian Times.

No, I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it.

Well, look. I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still- I just believe in choice.

Today, I ask for your prayers and support for my constituents whose lives have been turned upside down by this evil plot.

It is unconscionable that these hard working Americans were denied fundamental human rights and freedoms.

I am here to support Italian Americans who were singled out during World War II as enemy aliens of the United States.

I believe that it is incumbent upon the President and the United States government to acknowledge this dark chapter of our nation's history.

The prisoner of conscience Marta Beatriz Roque, who was sentenced by Castro's kangaroo courts earlier this year after languishing for close to 2 years in a squalid jail cell for exercising her human rights and civil liberties, was severely…

A recent case is that of political activist and human rights dissidenter Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, who was arbitrarily arrested again on July 11 of this year solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.

These examples of the Cuban dictatorship's cruelties are grave and numerous. Other countries may wish to ignore them. However, the U.S. Congress cannot and indeed we must not.

While many may turn a blind eye to the reality that plagues the Cuban people, Amnesty International does not.

I rise today to recognize the devoted men and women of the AmeriCorps Youth Pride Program.