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Sara Jacobs is a U.S. Representative for California's 53rd congressional district, serving since January 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and national security. Jacobs has been an advocate for progressive policies and has worked to address the needs of her constituents in a diverse urban district. Her background includes experience in international development and public policy, which informs her legislative priorities.
I think it does if we all agree in legislative history. It does not say they can use any taxpayers' money. It simply says that the gentleman from Kentucky is not proposing that the unions be outlawed if they collect their own dues and pay…
Nothing shall deny the right of Federal employees to organize or be fully represented by their unions, I repeat. That is all. That is all it deals with here. It does not say they can get a nickel from the taxpayers to do that. That is not…
If we want to do a little comity here, if we want to do what all of us say we want to do, namely, prohibit the use of public funds to pay the union people to do union work, if that is our purpose, and that is my purpose, to prohibit the…
In my opinion, it does not say anyplace that any taxpayers' money can be used, whether it is trust fund money or whether it is general revenues, either. All it says is that the Commissioner shall not be prohibited 'from requesting…
he was no longer a warrior, but he died in a war torn country. He died not that others might live, but that others, many others, including Bosnians and Americans as well, might live better. He was and, in the inspirational sense, remains…
I ask my friends and colleagues to recognize something that has occurred tonight in this debate, and that is a betrayal of an inclination to suggest that there is no connection between taxes and spending. It is said that if taxes are…
this is a paradox day in the U.S. House of Representatives. We are going to raise the earnings limit under Social Security immediately from about $11,000 a year to $14,000 or so a year, I believe, and that will, on average, mean an income…
Mr. Chairman, it has been said that we need a reliable source to identify illegal immigrants, or legal immigrants or legal people, citizens. So the question arises: Just how reliable would a Social Security card with a picture on it be…
we heard a moment ago one of our colleagues say that the purpose of the bill is to keep small farmers in the peanut business. Let us be more accurate. It is to keep some small farmers in the peanut business. If Fidel Castro issued an edict…
Mr. Speaker, after everything is said that can be said, this proposal would make it more, would make it easier to run up the bills than to pay them, thus beckoning one of the weakest aspects of human nature.
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