Lynn C. Woolsey

my constituents in Marin and Sonoma counties in California are as deeply concerned as the gentlewoman from Illinois' (Ms. Schakowsky) constituents are about their sons and their daughters dying in Iraq and the rationale the Republican…

Do not take my word for it. Listen to one of my constituents, Roy, from San Rafael. He writes: I was one of those who, traumatized by 9/11, trusted our government to lead us down the right path based on indisputable evidence and sound…

I rise in support of the Obey/Miller Amendment, which would protect millions of workers from losing their overtime pay. If the Bush Administration's proposed changes take effect, 79 percent of the workers in this country will lose their…

H.R. 438 is a good bill as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. One thing it does not do is provide loan forgiveness for Head Start teachers, and this is a big mistake. As the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Education…

this debate is a question of priorities, and it's a question of values. Under the Republican plan, after seniors have incurred $2,000 in prescription drug benefits, they will still pay a premium, but they better not expect anything in…

this sham Republican bill fails to provide women with the real prescription drug coverage they need and they deserve. Here we are, again, discussing ways to help seniors afford the prescription drugs that they need. And once again, the…

like the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) said, this is deja vu all over again. Here we are, once again, discussing ways to help seniors afford the prescription drugs that they need and must have and, once again, the majority insists on a…

As this House, our Nation and the world debate the quality of the intelligence that the war in Iraq was fought over, it is too easy to forget that our troops were not the first to search the Iraqi desert for weapons of mass destruction…

I rise in support of the Kind plan because it is actually kind to small businesses and it is kind to hard-working employees, and it makes affordable coverage accessible to the employees, the hard workers that need and deserve that…

today as we stand here and discuss the conference report on the Keeping Our Children and Families Safe Act, I find it ironic that this week the Republican leadership can find it in their hearts to provide much-needed funding to prevent…

today's vote on the Republican child tax credit bill was a squandered opportunity, a squandered opportunity to invest in our children and their families. We missed the chance to pass legislation that would immediately grant our Nation's…

I am proud to stand here and recognize the many contributions that Patsy Takemoto Mink made to the people of this country, particularly to the girls and women of this country. And I am equally proud that she will be honored by a post…

our working families need a break. They need a break more than anyone in this country, especially since they bear the brunt of this weak economy. But, for some reason, the Bush administration continues to cast them aside in favor of the…

Well, it is about time the Republican leadership does something about the unemployed and something for the unemployed; but what they offer is too little, too late, and it does not cover those who have used up their benefits but are still…

Our partisan Sense of the Congress amendment calls on the Department of Defense to have an institution devoted to studying peacekeeping operations and preparing our troops for future peacekeeping missions. We have constantly bore witness…

the House approved a war on Iraq because proponents said they were building weapons of mass destruction. Now this same House is on the verge of approving money for the United States to forward new nuclear weapons. How can we look ourselves…

I raised four children, and I am absolutely certain that Ritalin or some other psychotropic drug would have been suggested for each and every one of them sometime during their school career. In fact, when I was a kid, my grandfather used…

When I asked the Marin County superintendent of public schools what she thought about H.R. 1170, she replied that it was a bill that would affect the many to solve the possible problem of just a few, and I think that describes it…

my Republican colleagues should hear themselves over there. I have been sitting up in my office listening to this debate. They are saying our forests are diseased. They are right. But I ask, when was the last time they supported adequate…

I am here today to highlight a security issue that has been overlooked since September 11, 2001. That would be the number of nuclear weapons in the world today. As I speak here on the floor of this House, the United States has 7,500…

I oppose this rule for excluding the conversation and debate on unemployment insurance, and I support the Miller substitute because it levels the playing field between a corporation's top executives and the rest of the employees. This…

this past Monday I hosted a forum in my district with Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps about his agency's rules on media ownership. We had nearly 400 of my constituents packed into an auditorium at Dominican University in…

I rise to speak about this rule and this bill of the Republican leadership that clearly engages in a game of make-believe, believing that big tax cuts for the wealthiest, which will not even be enacted for years to come, will ease the pain…

we are all part of a larger community. If the rights of one are endangered, then everyone's rights are endangered. That is why we must be concerned that across the country incidents of hate crimes continue to rise. The San Francisco Bay…

budgeting is about choices, whether they are a working family or the Federal Government. Working families know far too well that they cannot afford everything. They often must decide between making a mortgage payment or taking a family…