Jackie Speier

I, too, rise to pay my respect and to honor Representative Cleaver. I am one of those many Members of the House who each week waits for that letter from Congressman Cleaver. In each of these letters, he tells a life lesson, typically one…

It is like giving an addict more dope. How do we justify it?

I would like to believe that Republicans and Democrats recognize that a pregnant woman at risk should have the opportunity to discuss with her physician whether or not to terminate a pregnancy.

I think Mr. Walsh is clueless.

It's not rare. What is rare? Women, maternal mortality in this country is 50th in the world.

I would tell him that women oftentimes find themselves in complications with pregnancy. It happens very frequently.

I am deeply concerned about this issue. And I must say, I don't have the confidence that we have come up with the answer yet.

How do we make operational contracting support part of the warfighter culture? What steps can Congress take to help the process?

The Wartime Contracting Commission has already said that we have failed in managing these contracts and the cost has been estimated to be $60 billion.

We have almost twice as many contractors in Afghanistan as we have service members there.

Today American women win. Congress has finally done something right. No more copays for contraception. No more copays for mammograms. No more copays for well-women visits. No more copays for diabetes screening, DV counseling, HPV DNA…

Rather than hide its head in the sand, Congress could solve this issue for all States by allowing States to require online sellers to collect tax even if they do not meet a physical presence test.

Each sales tax dollar not collected is a service not provided and a possible job lost.

Some retailers have to collect the tax from the consumer and some don't for the very same product. That is just not fair.

This is clearly not a business model in its infancy, and there should be no doubt that this is not a new tax.

If a Republican from Arkansas and a Democrat from California can come together on a bill that deals with tax issues, then the time has really come to finally resolve this issue.

The Constitution does not allow one State to reach into the pockets of another State's retailers to exact taxation without representation.

I rise again today to talk about military sexual trauma. It's a cancer, it's ubiquitous, it's unabated, and regretfully, unaddressed. There was Tailhook in 1991. There was Aberdeen in 1996. There were scandals at the military academies…

I'm here to offer an amendment to strike $120.5 million in undistributed funds from the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund, matching the Senate authorizers and keeping intact over $1.7 billion for this program. The Joint…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 142, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $120,500,000)''. Page 153, line 15, after the dollar amount…

I regret to say that America is for sale and the White House will go to the highest bidder. Seventeen people have given $1 million to the biggest conservative PACs in this country, and those contributions represent more than one-half what…

H.R. 3179, the 'Marketplace Equity Act of 2011,' introduced by my colleagues, Representatives Steve Womack and Jackie Speier would grant that much-needed authority.

We are not satisfied with that. The data is moving in the right direction. But we are focused on solving this problem.

I was wondering if it would be helpful to the Committee, and to Members who are concerned about this issue, if the VA would on a quarterly basis provide information to you as Chair of the Committee about how many of these cases are being…

Until we take it out of the chain of command, these problems will continue to exist because we are not dealing with the conflict of interest.