Zoe Lofgren

I rise on behalf of the California Democratic congressional delegation to honor the life of Don Edwards, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 100 in his home in Carmel. Congressman Don Edwards was someone I was proud to know…

Should the law require a green light from the FBI to prevent a firearms transfer to those prohibited by law from buying them instead of the red light system that we have now?

I appreciate that. And I think none of us wants Members of Congress to be unsafe.

I appreciate that the Sergeant at Arms' job is to keep us safe, but I did something last night just to see whether it was doable.

We certainly remember our colleague Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head.

Our Democratic leader sometimes says show a little love. And what that means is let other versions exist.

We are fooling ourselves if we think that putting the taxpayers' money being used for a route is somehow keeping us safe.

I always have said to my staff, I tell them all the time, that the largest room is the room for improvement.

I think there is much merit in what we have before us. I think we will have more transparency and more accountability.

I think today is a very good start. As we have noticed, there is more work to do.

Planned Parenthood in San Jose is a well-respected organization. I know thousands of women who have told me how much they rely on Planned Parenthood.

I think that one of the most important things that Planned Parenthood does is to provide birth control to women who want to control their own fertility.

There is no Federal funding for abortion. And so if the effort to cut off funding from Planned Parenthood would succeed, we would cut off contraception, but we would not cut off abortion, which is an absurd result, I must say.

It's really hard to begin, but let me just say that it is a myth to think that if we were able to defund Planned Parenthood, which I think, legally, we couldn't do, I mean, that there is the capacity to provide the medical services to the…

He was a marvelous man, a mentor to me, and someone who was widely admired not only in the Congress but in the district that he served.

I don't think that that's an accurate chart, and, in fact, I think it's since been proven that that is not correct.

Before coming to the floor, I wanted to reassure myself that the State Department did not have the authority to waive these fees just administratively. It is pretty clear that they need this legislation in order to waive these fees. In…

The real agenda here is pretty obvious, which is to try and outlaw or eliminate abortion in the United States.

I would note that we have an opportunity here to learn from the tragedy in San Francisco to come up with real solutions that would make our community safer instead of using that tragedy as an excuse to promote a different agenda.

May I inquire how much time remains? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from California has 9\3/4\ remaining. The gentleman from Virginia has 7\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Community trust policies result in more efficient policing. When State and local law enforcement agencies promote community trust policies, public safety is increased. The current New York police commissioner and former chief of police in…

I just want to close by posing some of the questions that this bill does not deal with and that I think should command our attention. In this case, we had an individual who had a criminal record. He had attempted to enter the United…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 241, noes 179, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 466] AYES--241…

We have an immigration system that is badly broken. There are 11 million undocumented people in this country. Contrary to what Donald Trump may think, the majority of these people are not rapists. They are hard-working people, spouses and…

And noting that it is those very grants that would be removed by the legislation that is before the Congress later today.