Jackie Speier

Well, if you are trying to do that every day, I would think you would want to work with the committees that have the authority to provide you with the resources to do your job so you can save more lives.

Can we as a committee receive from you a complete response to each of the 56 recommendations whether or not you have taken action, and if not, why not, so that we can have a full understanding of whether or not you have implemented those…

So, it is important once we create these commissions, they come up with these far-reaching recommendations, that we actually act upon them.

And my job is to save lives, and that is what I am trying to do every day.

I have oversight role.

I think you are being very belligerent, and I do not think that is conducive to us working together.

It is important once we create these commissions, they come up with these far-reaching recommendations, that we actually act upon them.

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Notwithstanding any time limit contained in the original ERA, the ERA shall be valid to all intents and purposes when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the states.

It is, frankly, an embarrassment.

This is not a stalking horse for abortion.

I hope there is no debate about the need for enshrining in the Constitution a clear and firm statement guaranteeing women equal rights under the law.

We need the ERA so that we can achieve our full economic and social potential.

We want you to finally remember the women.

I thank the witnesses for their participation including my colleagues, the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Speier, and the gentlewoman from New York, Ms. Maloney, who have both been champions for the ERA.

H.J. Res. 38, introduced in this Congress by Congresswoman Jackie Speier with 185 co-sponsors, will ensure that the ERA can become law if and when a sufficient number of states ratify it.

It is wrong that it has gone on as long as it has without the Congress of the United States putting their big-people britches on.

The lack of moral prioritization by this administration is galling.

I wonder, Madam Chair, what it says about our military medical system that it is so bad that we have to actually shield it, that it could cost multiple billions of dollars to fully allow tort claims, you know, which I think should scare us…

I encourage our colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to do so and to have an open debate on this issue that impacts our brave men and women who serve this great Nation.

There is no justification for this Court to read exemptions into the act beyond those provided by Congress. If the act is to be altered, then it is a function for the same body that adopted it.

The amendment to the Federal Tort Claims Act is an amendment that I am introducing as a bill later today. And it will be named after Sergeant Stayskal.

I have seen it time and time again as a veteran advocate. When you are hurt due to malpractice and you file a claim, the claim is denied.

They should be able to seek out a civilian provider who has that.

I mean, it is sort of like, you know, adding insult to injury to have that kind of a restriction.