Lynn C. Woolsey

today the House passed H.R. 4128, a bill that makes states and local governments ineligible for Federal economic development funds for 2 years if they exercise eminent domain in the name of economic development. Protecting the rights of…

I thank the chairman of the Out of Iraq Caucus, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), in bringing all of the voices together in the Congress, because we all have a lot to say. And we are all getting to the same conclusion, the…

my last word is wake up, catch up with the American people. Bring our troops home if you support them. ____________________

last year when it became clear that the United States was unprepared to fight an increasingly hostile and aggressive Iraqi insurgency, Secretary Rumsfeld told our troops: ``You have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you…

the war in Iraq is like one of those bridges in Alaska. You can give it all the money in the world, but in the end it goes nowhere. People all around the country are waking up to the fact that this war is not making the United States…

this morning we learned that Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to the United States Supreme Court. The stated reason had to do with executive privilege for legal advice she had given to the President that she did not want to…

my district, the 6th District of California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge is a ``donor'' district. We pay a lot more in taxes than we get back, in fact, the median home price is approaching $1 million. This is almost three times…

his name is Staff Sergeant George T. Alexander of Clanton, Alabama. He died on Saturday, 5 days after a bomb exploded near his vehicle about 60 miles north of Baghdad. He was the 2,000th brave American to give his life in the Iraq war. My…

yesterday Saddam Hussein faced a panel of Iraqi judges where he will finally stand trial for the crimes against humanity that were committed under his regime. Saddam Hussein is an evil person. He ordered thousands of his own people to…

the Republicans' misplaced budget priorities are actually shameful. They continue to be a reverse Robin Hood, slashing funds to safety net programs only to give more tax cuts to the wealthiest of Americans. The budget reconciliation that…

I did not see any purple fingers in this Chamber so far this week. We all remember how the Iraqi elections in January were hailed by the President's supporters as the turning point in Iraq. Well, now there has been another election, a…

the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, appeared on ``Meet the Press'' yesterday morning and made this assertion, and I quote Dr. Rice: `` . . . when we were attacked on September 11, we had a choice to make. We could decide that the…

8 months ago standing outside this dome, the President of the United States spoke these words as he was sworn in for a second term: ``We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every nation, the moral choice between…

this bill represents a new low. Wasteful drilling in the Arctic and dismantling the Clean Air Act are bad enough, but now the Republican majority wants to weaken the Endangered Species Act, weaken it by handing out subsidies to oil and gas…

for the last 2 years, Halliburton and subsidiaries such as Kellogg, Brown, and Root, have received billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Iraq. Despite the handsome profits, Halliburton, which used to be run by the Vice President…

this bipartisan bill could result in an additional $36 million in aid this year for students and colleges impacted by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. It is a commonsense bill, and I am proud to rise in support of H.R. 3863; but we…

Cindy Sheehan, who was arrested yesterday for simply exercising her constitutional right to freedom of speech outside the White House, has awoken a sleeping American public. She deserves a great deal of credit for her tireless campaign…

since the United States went to war in Iraq over 2 years ago, Congress has approved spending bill after spending bill to pay for military operations in Iraq. But one thing Congress has never done is provide any meaningful oversight over…

in response to the chairman, we are talking about taxpayers' money to support religious discrimination. That is what we cannot forget. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), a member of the…

last Thursday, September 15, we held an informal congressional hearing to discuss and explore a military withdrawal from Iraq. It was called ``The Bipartisan Congressional Forum on How to Bring the Troops Home.'' It was the first of its…

a friend of mine has sent me a short and moving poem; and I want to share it tonight. She writes, ``I weep for my country. We seem to have completely lost our way. I want the government to be as generous as private people are. I want my…

as we all know, Sunday marked 4 years since the painful terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 Americans at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in rural Pennsylvania. Sunday was a day for solemn reflection and remembrance, but…

I want to express my sorrow for the tragedy that has struck the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; but I also want to express my sorrow that we are not learning from this tragedy. Have we not seen firsthand this week just how…

tonight on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, I cannot help but ask how the victims would have been helped had our National Guard and our military and our Corps of Engineers equipment been made available here at home, not across the world…

Katrina, the Category 4 hurricane that hit the gulf coast last week, leveled nearly everything in its path. It tore apart homes and destroyed entire coastal cities. It has taken the lives of countless hundreds, if not thousands. It will…