Lynn C. Woolsey

I rise today in support of stem cell research. It is time for people on all points of the political spectrum to come together, support efforts to make stem cell research safe, legal and ethical. Stem cell research has the potential to…

with two oilmen in the White House, it is no surprise that this administration has turned its back on consumers and sided with big oil special interests, but that certainly does not make it acceptable. What is acceptable is this…

what an embarrassment. Once again, the House of Representatives is considering an appropriations bill that includes level funding for the arts, the humanities, museums and libraries, programs that teach us to think; programs that encourage…

20 years ago, HIV and AIDS was thought to affect only gay, white men. Time has proved otherwise. We now know that HIV and AIDS does not discriminate. It reaches out to men, women, and children of all ages in every social and economic group…

I rise this morning in outrage, outrage that the White House is working on a tax cut for the wealthiest people in this Nation, while my constituents in Marin and Sonoma Counties in California are still dealing with rolling blackouts and…

my objection is not because I object to the Boy Scouts. My objection is to intolerance. Since the Boy Scouts of America fought all the way to the Supreme Court for the right to discriminate, school districts, county governments, businesses…

Mr. Chairman, as it stands now, H.R. 1 is good enough. It is not great, mainly for what it leaves out. It would be a better bill if it included my amendment to keep coordinated services as part of the act. That way, children and their…

I urge my colleagues, I plead with my colleagues, to oppose this amendment that would put the Mexico City policy back into this bill, that would put the language that gags foreign private organizations from using their own funds, and I…

it is outrageous that this week Congress will vote on a budget that threatens the future of our Nation's most valuable asset: our children. No wonder the Republican leadership tried to rush the budget to the floor last week without…

family planning saves lives. Whether we are talking about Sonoma County, California, or Somalia, women who have control over their reproductive health are better off, and so are their families. That is why we must repeal the global gag…

I rise to express my wholehearted support for the Lofgren amendment and strong opposition to the underlying bill without that amendment. We must be clear on one thing. H.R. 503, the underlying bill, is a sneak attack on Roe v. Wade, and…

In his first 100 days in office, President Bush has made it very clear that the only promise that he intends to keep is his commitment to leave no special interests behind. Nowhere is that more clear than in his actions and in his…

I want to know who is taking care of our children. This weekend will mark 100 days since President Bush delivered his inaugural address. In that speech, he promised this Nation that he would leave no child behind. Yet since then the…

I come to the floor tonight in celebration of National Women's History Month, the month of March. I come here to salute the women in this country. This month is unique to me, particularly because Sonoma County, in my district, is the…

just do it. Go ahead, return the historically black colleges and universities and the Hispanic-serving universities to the subcommittee where they belong, the subcommittee that has jurisdiction over higher education, the Subcommittee on…

Yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the signing of the Family and Medical Leave Act. Since 1993, that landmark legislation has allowed 35 million Americans to take time off from their jobs to be with children or ailing relatives…

I am not against private schools, I have no problem with religious schools; but our public schools are underfunded, and to take anything away from the funding of public schools at this time is a huge, grave mistake. If we vote on this…

in Marin County, California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, the district that I represent, 150 women out of every 100,000 were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1991 and 1996. A 1994 Northern California Cancer Center study showed…

the women of America want the other body to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. This landmark legislation, which the House has reauthorized, has saved lives and rescued countless women from the vicious cycle of family violence…

I rise in support of H.R. 4807, to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act. This reauthorization is very important to our Nation. It is particularly important to my constituents in the North Bay across the Golden Gate Bridge from San…

many, many of our seniors must choose between buying food and buying medicine every day and every week of their lives, and we know that that is not right. But what are we doing about it? What are we doing in this Congress as we come to the…

It was a hearing with Dr. Ed Ziegler, the father of Head Start, that started me on the road to preparing children for school, even though I know my major effort is that all children have the best education in the world, but getting them…

I rise today to recognize California's Sesquicentennial. I am very proud to represent California's Sixth Congressional District. This district includes all of Marin and most of Sonoma County, the region north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The…

I did not. As a matter of fact, I was surprised. We heard about this suspension at 6 o'clock last night D.C. time when I was in California. And the idea that we would bring a controversial, important issue like this onto the Suspension…

I rise today because I support H.R. 4892, the Scouting for All Act, an act to repeal the Boy Scouts of America's congressional charter. I urge all of my colleagues to join me in sending a clear message that the civil rights movement is…