Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Currently, Congress imposes unfair limitations on insurance coverage of abortions through the Hyde amendment for low-income women, which should be, quite frankly, repealed. Today, Republicans are asking us to go even further--to create an unprecedented interference in the lives of women and their families by restricting coverage for women's health in private insurance plans. Instead of working together to extend unemployment benefits for the more than 1.3 million unemployed Americans, here we are debating another dangerous and divisive attempt to strip away the rights of women, instead of creating economic opportunity and jobs. Here you go again, attacking women's health care, not to mention that this bill singles out an attack on low-income women in the District of Columbia by permanently prohibiting the District from spending its own locally raised funds on abortions for low-income women. You would not want us to restrict anything in your districts where privately raised local funds are used. This is just another battle in the war on women. It has got to stop. We must stop these attacks on women's health.”