Jackie Speier

Actually, no, I don't. It sounds like someone talking about repairing one's car, but, you know . . .

I thank the gentlewoman from California again for her outstanding leadership. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Hill), one of our new colleagues, but not new to fighting on behalf of women.

It is now my pleasure to yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Bustos), my good friend and colleague who also has spent a great deal of time working on this issue of forced arbitration as it relates to sexual harassment.

That's astonishing questioning that we just heard.

I'm astonished by the questioning that you were just presented with.

A 25-year-old sister and an eight-year-old child is a family unit and they should not have been separated.

This would not be allowed as a kennel for dogs, yet that's how we're housing them.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. Brindisi The Acting CHAIR. It…

I thank the gentlewoman from Missouri for yielding. Let me be clear, we are already providing this service in the branches. They are not uniform. This would make it uniform. So whatever is being provided now would continue to be provided…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 6 Offered by Ms. Speier The Acting CHAIR. It…

These are servicemembers who deserve our support. These are servicemembers who have already identified as trans members in our military. They provide no issues in terms of lethality or cohesion. They serve with distinction, with honor, and…

What we have seen over and over again by the President is a willful intentional action to evade the law.

Nobody, nobody, is above the law.

I find it stunning today that we have so many people on the other side of the aisle who took an oath of office that they would uphold the Constitution and all the laws of this country, and now we have the Hatch Act that's being violated.

HR 1132 recognizes the success of the EPA's National Estuary Program model and the need to add additional federal funds ($25 million a year) to implement the CCMP for San Francisco Bay.

We must protect the San Francisco Bay, and it is obvious that we cannot do so without steady and robust federal funding.

Over the last 200 years, an alarming 90% of the Bay's wetlands have been destroyed by human activity.

It is so important that we provide more federal funding to protect and restore the Bay.

The degradation of San Francisco Bay would be an enormous loss for the residents of the Bay Area and our Nation.

I have introduced this legislation every Congress since the 111th Congress in 2010, and the need for action to protect the Bay has been increasing ever since.

Her bill would authorize up to $25 million each year for five years to the EPA to award grants to Bay conservation and restoration projects.

That is why the legislation introduced by Congresswoman Jackie Speier, H.R. 1132, the San Francisco Bay Restoration Act, is so timely and important.

Representative Jackie Speier in support of the San Francisco Bay Restoration Act.

So FEMA has kind of failed. Has it not?

I thank the gentlewoman and leader of our Appropriations Committee for her support, and I am grateful beyond words. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.