Anna Eshoo

I was attracted to public service at a very early age when I was in high school. We did not vote then. You had to be 21 years old to vote. And I became involved in the presidential campaign of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. When he won, I…

I would like to start out today obviously in strong support of the Roemer amendment, a proposal to restore the ability of colleges and universities to carefully design and budget their own athletic programs. I would like to add this for…

tonight we gather to commemorate those who lost their homes, loved ones, and lives in the Armenian Genocide at the beginning of this century. I am the only Member of Congress of Armenian descent. Every other day of the year, my heritage is…

This evening I rise in strong support of the conference report, and I urge my colleagues to support it as well. Like all conference reports, it represents a compromise. Nonetheless, the agreement is entirely consistent with the bill which…

first, I thank my colleague Rep. Rosa DeLauro for organizing this special order during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and for her unwavering advocacy on behalf of breast cancer patients. Breast cancer touches the lives of thousands…

8 months ago the President asked the Congress to have a campaign finance reform bill ready for him to sign by the Fourth of July, Independence Day. I think perhaps the President should have then specified the year, 1997. What has happened…

I rise today to compliment the members of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee for what they have done regarding aid to Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabagh. For the first time in recent memory there will not be a floor debate…

as the American people listen to us this afternoon as we engage in this great and important debate about our Nation's budget, it really is a statement of our values. The President came to the Congress, and in his State of the Union Message…

I rise in support of H.R. 1385 and the en bloc amendment. In particular, I would like to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Goodling], the gentleman from California [Mr. McKeon], the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Clay], and…

included in the fiscal year 1997 supplemental appropriation bill which we are considering is language that makes available to the State of California, emergency relief funding for the repair or reconstruction of highway 1 at Devil's Slide…

let me begin by thanking Representatives Pallone and Porter for their work on behalf of Armenia, and in particular for organizing this special order in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. Today marks the 82nd anniversary of the beginning…

the bill before us makes a clear statement that Congress does not support the use of Federal funds to directly or indirectly support assisted suicide. We heard testimony in the Health and Environment Subcommittee in support of this view…

I share my colleagues' desire to adequately fund the Legal Services Corp. However, as a member of the Committee on Commerce that has jurisdiction over the Securities and Exchange Commission and our Nation's securities markets, I believe it…

last week the Committee on Commerce wrote a bill, and with it wrote a sad new chapter against children in our country. The Republicans voted down several key amendments, but I want to highlight one in particular this morning. The bill does…

I thank Representatives Visclosky, Bilirakis, and Durbin and my other colleagues helping to improve and strengthen the Humanitarian Aid Corridor Act. On May 16, to the surprise and disappointment of the international human rights…

last week I received this letter from Judi LeVine's kindergarten class at Arundel School in San Carlos, CA. It is really a plea from her students for Congress to save the environment, especially our rain forests, and our animals, our…

earlier this month, I held eight townhall meetings throughout my district to celebrate Earth Day and listen to what people think about how this Congress is handling the environment. Time and time again, I heard people say that they…

On April 3, 1996 the United States lost a leader. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown inspired us all with his ability to bring together people from different backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures to find and achieve a goal for the common…

I rise to condemn the recent terrorist bombings carried out against innocent Israelis. At least 57 people have been murdered in the past few weeks in Israel during a wave of suicide bombings carried out by Hamas. I am pleased to support H…

today I introduced a bill in the House of Representatives, H.R. 3030, and it is entitled the Christopher Reeve Health Insurance Reform Act. I think that that name, rather than the number 3030, is a name that Americans know and respect…

I urge my colleagues to exercise restraint and pass a clean, long-term debt ceiling extension bill. Mr. Speaker, it's time to quit playing games with the full faith and credit of the United States. We are playing with the funds of every…

I think as people are tuned in and hopefully listening and finding this, our conversation, enlightening, the reason why we point out, excuse the expression, the ying and yang of this, is that what has taken place in the Senate around this…

in my view, there is a gap in the debate we are engaged in. The mantra is that we must cut, cut drastically for the long term, for future generations. Mr. Chairman, there is a new generation, Congress, and they are alive today. They are…

I wish there was not such an anniversary. This is not in celebration. This is, of course, in commemoration of the Armenian genocide and the millions of Armenians who were systematically exterminated by the Ottoman troops. The slaughter…

The gentleman has made a very, very important profound point and underscored a very profound issue here. It seems incomprehensible that a government of today would not look over its shoulder and say these are the sins of the past that were…