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Karen Bass is an American politician currently serving as the Mayor of Los Angeles, a position she has held since December 2022. She is a member of the Democratic Party and previously served as the U.S. Representative for California's 37th congressional district from January 2011 to December 2022. Bass has focused on issues such as public safety, accessibility, and community engagement throughout her political career.
I come to the House floor today to pay tribute to a man of exceptional valor, a quiet hero, a committed family man, a successful entrepreneur, and my constituent: Leonard Earl Roberts, Sr. Mr. Roberts lived an extraordinary life. At the…
This bipartisan amendment is simple. It prohibits the Defense Department from being used to engage in or facilitate human trafficking. Thousands of private contracting defense firms, including some of the industry's biggest names, such as…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…
In July, Medicare will be 46 years old. This is an opportunity for all of us to take a look at history. In 1965, 44 percent of Americans over the age of 65 had no health insurance. Many seniors were pushed into poverty by medical costs. In…
By providing help to families to prevent the spiral into abuse and neglect, we would avoid the substantial cost of foster care.
In California, we have made enormous strides with reforming our child welfare system.
On behalf of our seniors, I rise in strong opposition to the Republican budget that ends Medicare. The Republican budget ends the Medicare guarantee in 11 short years. In 11 years, reliable care for our seniors will be replaced with the…
Thank you very much, Mr. Yarmuth, for your leadership in this effort. You know, as a new member on the Budget Committee, we had an interesting week last week. We really just completed a week where we saw the far right of the Republican…
California was ground zero of the foreclosure crisis. At one point, 40 percent of all foreclosures nationwide were concentrated in the State of California. Today in California, nearly one in eight homes is in foreclosure. By far the…
I wanted to start by expressing my sincere enthusiasm about serving on this committee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.
Not only does the spending plan make devastating cuts to critical programs that families depend on...
You and the President should be commended for crafting a $1.1 trillion deficit-cutting budget that strikes the right balance.
I'm struggling with the idea of the U.S. withholding funding and wanted to know if you could articulate a little more.
as I said a moment ago, this amendment is far too restrictive. We have all sorts of different programs that are under development right now, the NEXUS card, the SENTRI system and the PASS card, as I mentioned a minute or two ago. If this…
today we come to the floor to debate the merits of H. Res. 841, legislation honoring the men and women of our armed forces and declaring our commitment to a sovereign, free, and united Iraq. As our country continues to engage Al Qaeda and…
following on my friend of Rhode Island, I had the pleasure of joining him and you, Mr. Speaker, in Atlanta a week and a half ago to witness the 15th international FIRST Competition. It was truly an extraordinary experience. There were…
today I commend and congratulate the Iraqi people on the occasion of the election which is going to be held there tomorrow. This election represents not only the successful liberation of the Iraqi people from decades of tyranny and…
I am planning to speak in opposition to the bill, but I thought that I heard the gentleman say a minute ago that he planned to oppose it. Is that correct?
this is a great resolution. I urge the Congress to adopt it. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Bass) that the House…
on Thursday, September 8, 2005, I regrettably missed recorded vote No. 464, on H. Res. 427. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on this measure. ____________________
in the 11 years that I have been in Congress I have been in Washington at 5:20 in the afternoon on Friday exactly twice. The first was when the Federal Government was shut down in 1995, and the second was last year in early October when we…
a ``yes'' vote today is a vote for progress, for reason and for sound research. Mr. Speaker, it is conservative to conserve, and this bill utilizes stem cells that have already been discarded, discarded because in most cases those who…
today we will take up H.R. 810, the stem cell research bill; and I agree with the distinguished majority leader. The debate that we have today will be about life and death. It will be about the lives of many millions of children who have…
we have heard plenty of questionable statements today from Members about misrepresentation of intelligence and alleged use of military force, without enough information to back up that action. As a former member of the Committee on…
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