Lynn C. Woolsey

Mr. Speaker, this Friday is ``International Women's Day.'' I come before you today to celebrate one-half of the world's population. I come to pay tribute to women of every nation who care for their families, contribute to their work…

this week the congressional caucus for women's issues is kicking off our program for National Women's History Month. We celebrate Women's History Month because, for too long, history has only meant his story. Women's contributions have to…

I rise to address the question of privilege. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. The folks who brought two Government shutdowns are now threatening to bring our Nation to the brink of default one more time. They are doing this in one more…

last night I spoke on the House floor about the devastating cuts House Republicans are making to education. After I left the floor, a Member on the other side of the aisle challenged the accuracy of my remarks--forcing me to repeat the…

there's more than meets the eye when we hear the Republicans talking about their plans to keep the Government running through the rest of the year. Their latest plan is to introduce a new temporary spending bill each month to keep the…

I rise to say, don't be fooled, taxpayers don't be fooled. The Gingrich shutdown is still alive and well. The list of unmet needs goes on and on. And, to add insult to injury, the Gingrich Republicans now want to skip town and leave the…

it is truly difficult to balance the family budget when you do not know when the next check is coming in. I know, because 28 years ago I was a single working mother with three small children, and I never received the child support that I…

Well, first of all, I thank my colleague from Connecticut for organizing this special order and giving us the opportunity to speak about the most important priority this country should have, and that is education. Mr. Speaker, it is really…

H.R. 1594 is a totally unnecessary bill. Can someone tell me how does this bill protect pensions? Not by providing funds for the Department of Labor's pension and welfare benefits administration, that's for sure. In fact, this bill cuts…

once again I am here to get this body to do something that the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Council for a Livable World, and Members on both sides of the aisle believe should have been long ago: Stop…

Today women from around the globe are meeting in Beijing. The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, despite all of its problems, is turning out to be a testament to the will and determination of women who seek to create a better world for…

most of my colleagues would think that Green Thumb would be a garden club or an environmental group. But if they know someone whose life has been changed through Green Thumb, they know that it is a unique employment training program for…

this Congress has passed some bad legislation, but this bill is worse than I ever thought possible. It actually signals the end of the Federal Government's obligation, to protect the health and safety of the workers of our Nation. I am a…

I ask my colleagues, do they not know that before Congress passed the school-to-work program last Congress, America was the only industrialized country that did not have a national program to prepare young people to go directly from school…

If this bill passes, Mr. Chairman, the Gingrich Republicans will be showing a triple feature down at your local movie theater. It will be ``Dumb and Dumber,'' with sick and sicker and poor and poorer, and let me tell you, folks, it is not…

this HHS bill is worse than I ever thought possible. This bill will go down in history because it marks the beginning of the end of the Federal Government's role in education and training. It is sweeping and radical legislation which guts…

for some reason that's beyond me, the U.S. Coast Guard is considering closing its only west coast training facility--the training base at Two Rock, CA. No doubt about it, the Coast Guard needs to get rid of some dead weight. It will be…

But let me tell you what this bill is really all about. It means that Newt's Republicans are creating tax loopholes for special interests, and paying for it by taking food out of the mouths of children, taking money out of the pockets of…

Twenty-seven years later, I am shocked that the Republicans are talking about taking school lunches away from almost 7,000 children in my congressional district alone while they are refusing to take money away from pork barrel military…

Mr. Speaker, I know personally the fear of not having enough money to buy food for my children. Twenty-seven years ago I was a single working mother with three small children forced to rely on Aid For Dependent Children and food stamps in…

over $5 billion in child support goes uncollected every year. This is a national disgrace that is punishing our children and bankrupting our welfare system. Tonight I am pleased to be joined by many of my Democratic colleagues to call…

each year, over $5 billion in child support goes uncollected. This is a national disgrace that is punishing our children and bankrupting our welfare system. Mr. Speaker, I know personally just how important child support is because, in…

last night the President said that his budget ``protects against any cuts in education.'' But, the President's determination to preserve education funding is on a collision course with the Republican Contract on America. This contract…

I rise today to commend the residents of Sonoma and Marin Counties in California for their courageous response to the floods which ravaged our communities and much of California last week. Law enforcement, county workers, emergency and…

I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me in revolutionizing our unemployment system, a system which is better at issuing unemployment checks than getting people into a job so they can earn a paycheck. As a human resources and…