Lynn C. Woolsey

George W. Bush will lead the United States, and the free world, for another 4 years. With the weight of the Presidential contest behind him, it is my sincere hope that he will take this opportunity to shun the aggressive, unyielding, and…

I am sad to say that the military draft is alive and well in the United States of America. But, this time, it is the Bush administration's shameful behind-the-scenes version: a ``backdoor draft,'' specifically targeting soldiers who have…

I rise to discuss H.R. 5186, introduced by a number of Republican Members to address a billion dollar and growing windfall subsidy for student loan lenders. Like my Democratic colleagues, I will support H.R. 5186, because it is certainly…

I rise today to talk about Sudan, where the world's gravest humanitarian crisis is taking place. Nothing like this has happened since the tragedy that occurred in Rwanda in 1994. Already, tens of thousands of Sudanese Africans have…

I stand here because sudden oak death was first found in Marin County in my district in 1995. Since then, I have been working to control and contain this devastating disease, and I have been working with the gentleman from California (Mr…

I am tired of my Republican colleagues using the term ``activist judges'' to scare citizens into believing our Federal judiciary has lost all credibility and seeks only to promote an activist liberal agenda, and I am taking this time today…

the Bush administration is shamefully neglecting the men and women who serve in the United States Military, even as they return home from a war in Iraq, having lost arms, legs, other parts of their bodies, to suffer forever from other…

I rise today to honor Linda Theil on her retirement from 33 years of public service as a staff member in the House of Representatives. When I was just starting my first term in Congress in 1993, Linda came to my staff. Her expertise and…

here we go again. With all the important legislation we should be working on with just 1 week left in our session, we are writing discrimination into the Constitution for the first time in our country's history. Whether one supports or…

here we go again. Instead of making this TANF law better, instead of giving welfare recipients the tools to move from welfare to self-sufficiency, we are once again renewing, for the eighth time renewing it, actually, a bill that continues…

the Bush administration loves to tout George W. Bush's willingness to stay the course as the source of his strength as a President. Day after day, the President and his surrogates use this ``resolve'' to demonstrate why he should be…

imagine living in a world where you believe owning weapons is the only way to feel safe, so you decide semiautomatic weapons which are made easily available to you are the weapon of your choice. But then you decide to buy handguns so you…

This is legislation that is very important to my district and to the San Francisco Bay Area. As my colleagues may know, I have worked for the past 2 years with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the gentlewoman from…

every day at least four hate crimes are reported in the United States, at least four. But even worse are the crimes that are not reported. They are not reported out of fear of retaliation or feeling that law enforcement just will not…

all of us who have listened to the suspension debates just before the Special Orders have to acknowledge that there are not nearly enough post offices in this country to honor all of those who have fallen as heroes in Iraq. We have to do…

the Democrats' Partnership for a New America is a lot about helping American families. There is no better way to help working American families than to support them as they struggle to balance work and family life, because workers need…

in June of this year, the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water bravely stood up to the Bush White House by reducing, or flat out rejecting all of the administration's requests for nuclear weapons funding in its…

as thousands of our brave American soldiers continue to fight and die and receive serious wounds halfway around the world, I want to speak about two Iraqs that are presented to the American people. There is the Iraq that President Bush and…

earlier this year people from around the world saw photographs of the mistreatment, the torture, the sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners that took place at Abu Ghraib. If anti-American sentiment was not strong enough after the United States…

the Nonprofit Athletic Organization Protection Act before us today I believe sets a very dangerous civil rights precedent. I take this personally, because I raised four, now grown, children, and each and every one of them was an athlete…

Dolores Kesterson wanted to know if I had read about the father in Florida. Dolores's 29-year-old son, Erik, her only child, was killed almost 10 months ago when his Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Mosul during a firefight. He had been in…

today, this Congress committed a shameful act of omission. When today's congressional session ended, so too ended the assault weapons ban that has helped to keep our streets safe for the past decade. In 1994, President Clinton bravely…

earlier this week, when Vice President Cheney was talking about terrorism, he told the audience something that I consider to be absolutely appalling. He said, ``It is absolutely essential on November 2nd that Americans make the right…

Yesterday the 1,000th American soldier was killed in Iraq; 1,000 young men and women who will never again return to their homes and experience the warm embrace of their parents and others who love them. Young men and young women have died…

George Bush is running for reelection on a platform that our economy is in good shape. Well, this is a sham. Today, 8 million Americans are looking for work; 8 million Americans are looking for work. The unemployment rate is 30 percent…