Lynn C. Woolsey

I am fed up for bringing it up on a suspensions calendar. I am not going to vote against this bill because of what is in the bill, I am going to vote against it because of what is not in the bill. As a member of the Committee on Education…

I rise today to honor Andrea Fox of San Rafael, California, a talented professional planner, community volunteer, athlete and breast cancer activist, and an inspiration to everyone who knew her. Andrea Fox lost her life in a battle against…

the strength of our United States economy is built on the honesty, integrity and transparency of our financial institutions. But right now the confidence of the American public and international investors is truly shaken. We must restore…

now that Republicans are back from their party with the pharmaceutical industry, we may be able to legislate prescription drug coverage that will be good for our seniors. Unfortunately, the plan being developed by the GOP is one more…

I am particularly honored to join with the gentlewoman from Hawaii (Mrs. Mink), the author of title IX, on the 30th anniversary of this great program that would not have happened without her. When most people think of title IX, they think…

my amendment would create a research program within the National Science Foundation to address a significant gap of knowledge on biosafety, a gap of knowledge that must be filled. The amendment establishes the Biosafety Research Program…

First, this would have been part of the debate in the committee had I not been asked not to bring it up in committee but to bring it as an amendment to the floor, and I was asked by the majority party to do that. So please be clear, this…

I would respond that they are still in NSF, and that is what we are saying. The gentleman is saying we do not identify programs that we invest money in other than just general funds. We do decide what is important under NSF when we choose…

I have a quote on page 255 of the National Academy of Sciences Report of 2002, and I quote ``Formal research support in the United States for the study of environmental impacts on transgenic plants has been sparse.'' In other words, we are…

Mr. Chairman, what are we going to tell the monarch butterflies when they are having to adapt to genetically modified corn? They cannot adapt. They are dying. We have to look into what we can do about that, and that is what this amendment…

I have two responses to the gentleman from Michigan's (Mr. Smith) objections to my amendment. First, in talking about the changes that differed from what my amendment was in committee and to what we have brought to the floor, my changes…

we all know that today prescription drugs are a fact of life and a fact of death. The average American senior uses 18 prescription drugs each year, and the cost of those lifesaving drugs keeps going up. That is why it is our responsibility…

if the GOP leadership is so sure that their supplementary appropriations bill promotes fiscal responsibility, why are they resorting to sneaky tactics such as the ones what we've seen in this bill? How many times does the majority have to…

6 years ago I voted against the welfare reform bill because I had been a welfare mother 35 years ago. I knew what we needed to do to bring families out of poverty. I was right. Unfortunately, we have not brought families out of poverty…

I would like to inform the last speaker that the unfunded mandate in this bill would cost the State of Texas about $688 million and Texas has 37,000 children on their child care waiting list. This Republican bill does not reform welfare…

I rise with sincere concerns about H. Res. 392. We should not be bringing this type of one-sided resolution to the floor now. Instead, we should be working on a resolution that encourages peace. The United States does not need a political…

35 years ago, I was a single mom with three small children, and even though I was working, I needed Aid for Dependent Children to make ends meet. When Congress passed welfare reform in 1996, I warned that getting women off the welfare…

In 1996 when we passed welfare reform, after both of us voting against it because it did not provide a safety net for children, we warned the President, then Bill Clinton, and our colleagues, many of whom agreed with us and voted with us…

I thank the gentlewoman and look forward to working with her in getting the message across that the enemy is poverty, the enemy is not welfare or the welfare recipient. The enemy is poverty. If we can get that message across and do…

Tomorrow is the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. What better way to honor this day than to act upon legislation that will help law enforcement investigate and prevent crimes based on…

today I support and applaud the House's final passage of the ``Family Immigration Sponsor Act.'' And, I thank my colleague, Mr. Calvert, for his work on this issue. A family in my district, with a tragic story, has become a well-known…

today the people's House can clean up our election system. We have a real chance. My constituents in Marin and Sonoma Counties just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge vote 85 percent every time we have an election. They…

Over 30 years ago, Mr. Speaker, I was a single mom with three small children, and even though I was working, I needed AFDC, welfare, to add to my income for health care, child care and food stamps. When Congress passed welfare reform in…

I want to tell our colleague and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) that every single day she teaches me something. In my 1992 campaign, the gentlewoman from California showed me that senior Members, important Members, actually…

this past Tuesday, December 18, marked the 22nd anniversary of the United Nations' adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, otherwise known as CEDAW. Adopted by the U.N. General Assembly…