Anna Eshoo

Mr. Speaker, I rise today urging my colleagues to oppose this rule and reject the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act. I think this is a trivial bill about obesity lawsuits that have not resulted in a cent in damages against…

This bipartisan bill is about making sure that patients are, one, able to safely benefit from new medical technologies and, secondly, as quickly as possible. As medical technologies become more advanced, it takes more attention and…

we have all not only been taught but tried to abide by something, part of the Ten Commandments, honor thy father and thy mother. I think more than anything else this evening, that is really what we are talking about, honoring our fathers…

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence... has been carefully evaluating the prewar intelligence assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and Iraq's purported ties to al Qaeda. This bipartisan investigation has…

Mr. Speaker, for those that are listening in this evening, besides the vote that some Members of Congress have had to take on going to war, I consider this the most important vote in the House of Representatives. Tonight we debate a bill…

I respect and have high regard for the men and women of the intelligence community, and I really consider it a high privilege to have been appointed to serve on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House. As a new member…

The people that are tuned in to this, that are listening to C-SPAN today, we have on the floor a national energy policy. What some of us are trying to do is to put the legislative vehicle into drive, to go forward into the future, instead…

Mr. Speaker, the Congress is now debating the most serious and sobering of issues, whether we go to war, war against Iraq. We do this as we stand on the threshold of a new century. I believe this debate is as much about voting to declare…

I am so pleased, I am really very excited, that the House is considering this evening H.R. 3580, legislation which I introduced with my wonderful colleague, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood), and worked with so many others…

I have been sitting on the floor now for hours, as many of you have as well. I do not relish saying the following, but I think that we have hit one of our all-time lows. This is the House of Representatives, the place of the people. We are…

There is no question, my colleagues, that we have a problem in the country. No Member of Congress can say that the status quo is all right. It is not okay for those that are coming into this world not to have the best services of a doctor…

I rise in support of S. 941, the Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act, which will add approximately 5,000 acres to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, also known as the GGNRA. First, I…

this morning the House of Representatives welcomes Father Samer Youssef, who has come here from California, from my congressional district in Northern California in the heart of the Silicon Valley. On April 7, a tragedy befell our…

Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to speak about an issue that calls to a need of the American people. This is really a solemn moment in this Chamber, and I regret enormously that my friends on the other side of the aisle did not have enough…

Mr. Chairman, many of us wait not just minutes but hours to come to the floor to speak, and this evening, after listening to this debate about only a slice of what is in this supplemental, I cannot help but observe that this distinguished…

first I would like to salute the authors of this bill for their courage, for their vision, and for their tenacity. Today is the day in this House of Representatives. I think that the eyes of the Nation are really on us. They want to see if…

I rise in support of the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, which I'm proud to sponsor with Mr. Greenwood of Pennsylvania. This bill is the conferenced version of legislation that passed the House a month ago on the suspension calendar…

Mr. Speaker, I have but a few brief moments to come to the microphone today, not to urge Members one way or the other on the issue that is before us, but to state why, with really a heavy heart, why I am not supporting the first trade…

I have long thought that our Nation's airports are part of our Nation's security. That was debated in the Congress for many years. September 11 changed that attitude in the country. I do not think there is a citizen in our Nation today…

as a cosponsor of the Working Lands Stewardship Act, I rise in strong support of the Boehlert-Kind-Gilchrest-Dingell amendment to H.R. 2646. Like the Working Lands Stewardship Act, this amendment will substantially increase resources for…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in full support of this resolution. I do it with a heavy heart because of what has been imposed on our Nation. We did not seek this, but we must act. I do not believe that we act, and I know that I do not, in taking…

I rise in obvious support of this amendment. To the rest of the country, I want to say this evening that California really feels what is being placed on her shoulders in terms of the burdens. We had a piece of legislation that has caused…

For years, U.S. physicians, researchers, and scientists have searched for cures to the diseases that have afflicted so many of our families and our friends, and friends of our friends. These physicians, these scientists, and these…

rarely are there times that one vote can fundamentally turn the tide of political history. I think today is such a moment. Our generation of political leadership can shape a new future, a future which will be free from the influence of…

I was recently visited in my office here in Washington by two of my young constituents, Mary Lucas, 9 years old, and Kelsey Kagle, 15. They both have juvenile diabetes. Mary Lucas, the 9-year-old, said something to me that has remained…