Janice Hahn

I stand with my colleagues today in Congress, the American people, and our President to say that now is the time to end the senseless gun violence that has plagued our neighborhoods from the streets of Compton and Chicago to the schools…

It's a new year, it's a new beginning, it's a new Congress. This 113th Congress will let us seize the opportunity to start with a clean slate. We must put aside partisan politics and labels to come together for the good of the American…

Tonight in Times Square hundreds of thousands of people will be there at midnight to watch that ball drop, but here in Congress, we've also dropped the ball. We're in the final days of the 112th Congress. No one expected us to be here on…

We've been to this place before. Before the gut-churning horror and sadness of the killings at the elementary school in Newtown, there was a movie theater in Aurora, a college campus in Virginia, a high school in Columbine. On Friday, I…

Time is counting down, the holidays are upon us, and Congress still hasn't come together to spare hardworking middle class families from the tax hike rushing towards them. We know we agree on this. We know what this tax increase would mean…

I am an unabashed supporter of high-speed rail, and I look forward to working with my colleague in California, Mr. Denham.

I hope to be one of the champions here in Congress a long time to continue to urge us to finally build the high-speed rail in California.

I was stunned by the way they had been treated by the previous people that were in place, treated very shabbily, treated very arrogantly.

Thank you, Mr. Larsen and Mr. LoBiondo, for your work on this. Mr. Speaker, I rise to offer my support for the House and Senate agreement on the Coast Guard reauthorization for fiscal year 2013 and 2014. The United States Coast Guard plays…

As we race toward this fiscal cliff, we are faced with a number of looming problems, not the least of which is the threat of a crushing middle class tax hike. If we fail to act, middle class Americans could see their next tax bills rise by…

This morning, The New York Times featured an article about California's resurging economy, which was one of the States hit hardest by the recession. After years of struggle, our housing market is bouncing back, and our unemployment rate is…

Last Tuesday, our President said something that I think this Congress needs to hear: the people of our districts sent us here to focus on their jobs, not our own. We're racing towards a serious deadline, towards higher taxes on struggling…

By the way, sheltering in place will save 500,000 lives in Manhattan, 270,000 lives in Los Angeles county.

I don't think we are protecting the homeland when we are thinking that it is acceptable to scan just 3 to 4 percent of these containers.

I would dare say many of the plots that have been foiled over the last years were a result of the information that was cobbled together in our fusion center.

I voted against the Budget Control Act because I thought it was a bad idea then and it has proven to be a very bad idea.

As we mark yet another anniversary of a September morning that dawned just as any other, we are first and foremost called to remember; but as we remember the fear and the grief of a day born of unfathomable hate, we remember, too, the…

Yesterday the Government Accountability Office revealed that the debt ceiling crisis Republicans put this country through last August cost us taxpayers $1.3 billion. Now, Americans are hearing that they may be put through that wringer…

Today is actually my 1-year anniversary of being sworn in to this Congress. It's hard to believe it's been a year. One of the things I came to Congress to do was to really move us toward ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While we…

I think it's worthwhile to remember why Congress passed health care reform in the first place. It's because our system was broken; it wasn't working. But just this morning, Speaker Boehner said that we needed to repeal the Affordable Care…

I am ready to close, too. The hour is late. For those of you watching C-SPAN, it's nearing the final hour of the day. It's past 11 p.m. But I really did feel like one of the reasons I did come to Congress was to raise the level of…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Foxx). The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Hahn moves that the managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two…

I appreciate my colleague from California saying that. But, again, I have letters of support from major organizations who felt like the freight policy language was not as good as the Senate bill. Just to make clear, the freight policy in…

I would like to begin by recognizing and thanking Chairman King and Ranking Member Thompson for their continued leadership on this incredibly important issue. The lessons of 9/11 have taught us we must be continuously vigilant and…

I grew up in Los Angeles in the fifties, which was when the smog was so bad that we actually had to stay inside the classroom during recess; and when you tried to inhale deeply, the pain in your chest was so severe from the pollution and…