Hilda L. Solis

There are over 337,000 children of teachers, classroom teachers that are left out of this child tax credit. They pay payroll tax, gasoline tax, rent, property taxes, and other types of taxes. I would think that their burden falls very…

I know that all of us take the oath of office to represent and do our due diligence of representing our districts. Yet the Republican tax plans to me are devastating to people working in my district. Every city in my district in…

I rise tonight to honor a dear friend from my district, George Garcia, who died early this morning at the age of 51. He was a resident of El Sereno community of East Los Angeles in my district. He was born on May 6, 1952, in Los Angeles…

I met four soldiers that had just returned from Iraq, about the same age as Francisco Martinez Flores, and their stories were also heartening and compelling. They came back to their families, and I had a chance to meet them. Lance Corporal…

this bill is a sham. It does not provide adequate prescription drug benefit. Este projecto de ley no ayudara a los ancionos. No ayudara ni a nuestras madres ni a nuestras abuelitas. It will not help our mothers, nor our grandmothers. Mr…

Mr. Speaker, I rise also to express my strong support for the Rangel substitute and to thank the ranking member for his continual struggle for equitable and just tax laws. Just tax laws are fiscally responsible and fairly allocated…

I would like to also voice my strong opposition to this bill, H.R. 1115. This bill is worse than what we saw last year, and it would be applied retroactively to pending cases, including those brought by employees at Enron for financial…

I rise today also to join with my colleagues in celebrating Patsy Mink. We are going to honor her by naming a post office after her, but she deserves so much more. She was a wonderful human being whom I had a chance to know in my first…

tonight I rise to speak on behalf of future generations of Americans. The needs of these children, and their children, are clear. They need a strong economy, quality education, health care and a clean environment. The $350 billion tax cut…

I also wish to rise and express my outrage that, in the passing of an irresponsible tax cut, Republicans deliberately prevented families with incomes under $26,625 from receiving a child tax credit. Here is a family that I represent in my…

I was moved to put forward legislation on this issue because we have several young soldiers that are in my district that are serving now, but one in particular, Francisco Martinez Flores, who actually lost his life. He lost his life just 2…

I rise also today to express my outrage in passing an irresponsible tax cut that Republicans gave. They gave $100,000 tax breaks to the largest and most polluting SUVs and left out millions of working-class families. The $350 billion tax…

tonight I rise also to express my strong opposition to the recent vote that was taken today by the FCC. The three-two vote by the commission will allow for the concentration of media ownership in the hands of the very few and privileged…

I also rise today in opposition. Almost a year ago I recall as a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce voting against this similar proposal that is now before us. H.R. 1000 is really an act; and when I say that, it is an…

I rise today also to strongly support this resolution. Popular during World War II, we are seeing the Blue Star Banners flown again. I brought a copy of one, because these are being proudly flown in my own district in the cities of El…

I truly think this is a hallmark because it is a bipartisan bill that was working its way through last year, but unfortunately met some barriers on the Senate side. I know this is something that many people in urban areas are looking for…

I rise tonight to discuss President Bush and the House Republicans' proposed budget. As my colleagues may recall, back in the year 2001, President Bush entered his office enjoying a fiscal surplus that no previous President had ever…

I believe we can all acknowledge that rising medical malpractice premiums are hurting doctors and patients. But I heard earlier from the other side that trauma centers are closing, and they are closing in Los Angeles. But it is not because…

Today I dropped in H.R. 1200, which is a bill that I have dropped in for 12 years, providing universal health care insurance for the entire country. We are all one family. We are not this group or that group or another group or whatever…

Again, I just want to underscore why we are celebrating here tonight, to talk about the real issue, and the real issue is that there is so many millions of Americans that are uninsured, 40 million, and we need to change that, and we need…

What it means, block granting, is that we are racheting down health care. Fewer people get fewer health care. Not more care, fewer. And with the rising increase of population with the uninsured, it means less dollars, not only for…

I am very privileged to be in this position, and I know that we have a long charge ahead of us. Madam Speaker, tonight, today as Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Health Task Force, I wanted to call attention to the health status…

I just want to again just clarify that one of the misleading advertisements that is out there being presented to the public is that there are various Hispanic national organizations that are in support of Mr. Estrada and his nomination. I…

on Saturday, our country suffered a staggering loss that reminds us how precious and fragile life truly is. As we watched the debris from the Columbia space shuttle fall to the ground, our hearts sank but our resolve only strengthened…

I say good morning to our fellow Americans and to the public who are watching us as we begin to draw our attention now to something that has been ailing our economy, and that is a discussion of unemployment. It is about time, Members, that…