A perfect beginning. And one of the reasons that women will be able to afford health care in low-wage jobs is the exchange that will be provided in the health care bill. Women will be able to select from a group of health care plans the…

The whole Nation desperately needs health care reform, but no group of Americans needs it more than women, women who face discrimination and insult at the hands of the broken status quo. We all know that the current system allows insurance…

It's by providing health care for everybody and helping those who can't afford it and helping small businesses who find it very difficult to provide health care for their workers, helping them bridge the gap between what it costs and what…

Well, and some people believe that because they have coverage that they don't have to worry about it. Well, I'm telling you, everybody has to worry. Retired folks, their retirement plans are cutting back. Individuals with really nice…

After listening to 14 women come down here and speak for 5 minutes on why it is so important that being a woman is not a preexisting condition as a part of our health care system, and to change that--and to change it this weekend when we…

And something else, if the gentlewoman will yield. If that young person is employed, the employer cannot insist that the young person go on their plan because, you know, young people make plans cheaper because they don't get sick as often…

Well, for children, after 6 months, there will be no such thing as a preexisting condition. But I believe it's in 2014 that preexisting conditions will not be allowed for any coverage, including group plan coverage.

Well, the entire Nation is counting on us to pass comprehensive health care reform. We know that. There's no question about it. The millions who have no coverage at all desperately need this legislation. But as we just said, so too do…

Well, I've said it over and over. We have written the robust public option legislation, which will be introduced the day that we sign this health care bill into law.

So again, tonight, for women, senior women, all women are going to be treated much better under this health care bill. And no woman will be considered, just because she's a woman, a preexisting condition. I want to thank my colleagues for…

At least 46 million Americans are now uninsured; 7.7 million in California are uninsured, and at least 80,000 are uninsured in the Sixth Congressional District, which is the district I represent. By the end of the day, 14,000 more…

I rise today in support of H. Res. 605, a resolution recognizing the continuing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. In 2002, I authored a resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the Chinese Government's…