Lynn C. Woolsey

in the last weeks dozens of national health organizations launched a nationwide online petition demanding the passage of comprehensive Bill of Rights. This would protect the basic rights of patients enrolled in managed care plans. In my…

it is tax day in America. On April 15 each year, each of us has dutifully fulfilled our duty. We have filled out forms, written checks, and stood or are standing in long lines at the post office. We do this because it is our obligation and…

maybe I am just too simple, but today's debate, today's argument for an extended missile defense system, takes me back to the 1950s when I was in school. At least weekly while I was in grade school every student and our teachers went under…

I am standing to support the amendment of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Holt) to the amendment because it is consistent with Ed-Flex. Often schools waivers from Federal regulation and returning in return for increased accountability…

I rise to ask my colleagues, my colleagues in the House of Representatives, to take a stand for women. In honor of Women's History Month, I am reintroducing a resolution urging the Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the…

I ran for Congress because I believe that our children's education must be the number one priority in our country, and that is why I am on the Committee on Education and the Workforce. We must prepare all of our children for the high…

I ran for Congress, and I am here today because I believe that our children's education must be the number one priority in our country. Education is another of President Clinton's major budget priorities because he also agrees that we must…

we have been hearing for the last 4 months that the majority party wants to meet the Democrats in the center; they want to come together and work with us and meet us in the middle. Well, I am telling my colleagues the middle does not start…

It has been nearly three years since we passed the Nation's welfare reform law, and most news reports paint a very glowing picture. The welfare rolls are at a 30-year low; more people than ever are working; billions of surplus welfare…

in 1992, the Republicans' mantra when I was running for election the first time was deficit and national debt and the harm it was causing to our children and our children's future. Being the realist that I am, I came here and got…

this past Sunday, while attending church in my hometown of Petaluma, California, I was struck by how utterly sad I am. Sad about the President's behavior, sad about the Committee on the Judiciary's unfair decision to not allow censure as…

You know in California, our very conservative Republican Governor put into place the decrease in class sizes for grades K through 3. Well, guess what we found out? We did not have enough certified teachers, we did not have classrooms, and…

Well, I have a comment. When our colleague, Mr. Pallone, talked about small one-room school houses, those schools were homogeneous. Everybody in that class looked the same, came from the same kind of background and environment. Now we are…

Well, you said that maybe some of our colleagues have never experienced the shortcomings of managed care because they are healthy. Well, oops, maybe it is because they can afford other coverage. It might have something to do with people…

We need a Congress that cares about health care, our seniors, our children and our environment, and this Congress and its majority does not.

We should not be surprised, because a year ago, November 1997, let me read to you from the New York Times. Business and insurance lobbyists who helped kill President Clinton's health plan in 1994 are mobilizing a new campaign to block more…

One thing I would like to call to everybody's attention is that these 10 million children that are not covered, more than 80 percent of them live in families with at least one working parent. That is a huge number. We are not talking about…

I, for one, am embarrassed at how little this Congress has produced. I would think the leadership of this Congress, of this House, would be red in the face when they look at themselves in the mirror. I, too, voted for Social Security first…

If a school needs roofs, paint, that is what they need, and, if we do not invest in those children, in their schools, what are we saying to them? We are telling those children you do not matter. We want you to get an education, but we do…

I got the finest education in the same way that any corporate executive or any scientist or any academic could get and was allowed to be able to have the honor and the privilege of serving in this body. So it is a precious, precious gift…

Thirty years ago my children and I were abandoned by their father. My children were 1, 3 and 5 years old. I went to work immediately. I had good job skills fortunately. I was a very healthy young woman. My children were healthy. We were…

What I mean by education being the great equalizer is that youngsters have the opportunity to succeed despite their gender, their religion, their socioeconomic status, political party affiliation. It says that your God-given talent is what…

this Labor-HHS appropriations bill makes me believe that some of my colleagues in the majority party would benefit from spending time back in the classroom. The numbers in this appropriations bill simply do not add up. From Head Start…

Mr. Speaker, it gives me such great pleasure to rise in support of H.R. 3874, the William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998. This legislation will benefit children in schools and child care facilities across our…

I stand in opposition to the Hyde resolution and in support of the Democratic alternative. As a woman and a Democrat, I am embarrassed by the President's conduct. What he did was wrong. The very idea of considering impeaching a…