Jackie Speier

But we're more interested in talking about the Atlantic spiny dogfish, or pennycress than dealing with issues around veterans accessing SNAP and whether or not the public has a right to know when we spend $9 billion a year on premium…

I thank my good friend from the Northern Mariana Islands for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening in support of my legislation, the Buffalo Soldiers in the National Parks Study Act, which will allow the Department of the…

We have to look ourselves in the faces and in the mirrors and recognize that only 10 percent of the American people even think we're doing a good job.

I thank the heroic lady from Illinois, and I think, for all of us, hearing your words are profound. What we are seeing here is, not only are there physical wounds, there are emotional wounds. So many of my colleagues on both sides of the…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for allowing me to speak. My colleagues have all spoken eloquently on the floor today about the importance of addressing this issue of sexual assault and rape in the military. What we hasten to do…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding me time. Seventy men and women serving in the military every single day are sexually assaulted and raped. While we sit here and we talk, that's going on. For over 25 years--for over 25…

Now, at some point, a big company like Boeing needs more than a slap on the hand.

It has now been almost 6 months since the tragedy of Newtown. The American response to that tragedy was quick and overwhelming. And yet, we have done nothing to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. In fact, many of my colleagues…

We hope that there will be good judgment used here, as there is often.

The RFS was first included in the 2005 Energy Policy Act under a Republican Congress and was signed into law by President Bush.

The law's implementation has been far from perfect, but make no mistake, the EPA is charged with administering the RFS according to the law that Congress passed.

The RFS originated as bipartisan legislation designed to achieve these critical goals.

So maybe that money we spent on that failed computer system could have been better spent here.

We can guarantee that it will fail if we don't give you the resources to actually roll it out properly.

Isn't it our obligation to then implement that law?

I think you are being sabotaged. And I think it is un-American at this point in time, when this law has passed, we are in the process of implementing it, that you don't have the resources to do the job.

BLM processing time has decreased. In fact, in 2006 it took 127 days; in 2011 it now takes 71 days.

The two delayed lease sales would have auctioned off approximately 33,000 acres of public land.

Let me repeat that: at high risk for waste, fraud, and abuse; precisely the kinds of issues that this committee should be focused on.

I think this hearing should focus on the thousands of leases for millions of acres of Federal land and water that oil and gas companies are sitting on, but not producing on.

Even more importantly, we ought to be examining the Department of Interior's failure, and I underscore failure, to collect the full amount of revenues and royalties that these companies owe the American people for the oil and gas they are…

Next to me is a mug shot. It's a mug shot of someone who's been charged with sexual assault. This is a mug shot of Jeffrey Krusinski. Jeffrey Krusinski is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. His job is to work at the Pentagon as the…

I think it is counterproductive at this point. I think it is here to stay.

The medical economy is clearly a different world than we face in any other parts of our lives.

The cost of health care in this Country is one of the huge drivers for personal budgets and for the public budget as well.