Wendy Sherman

we talked earlier today about the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act. The purpose of that bill and the purpose of this bill is to change the behavior of multinational corporations so as to change the behavior of the Iranian Government. This…

this is an agency that has conducted its activities at no cost to the Federal Treasury and, in fact, made a profit. It is appropriate that we reauthorize OPIC. Second, this bill is, I believe, the first to come before this House which…

I rise to address two issues involving international economics. The first is the World Bank. The entire world has been fixated on whether Mr. Wolfowitz arranged $195,000 for his paramour, which shows how little attention we pay to things…

So what this bill does is it opens the process to competitive proposals. It allows other groups like U.S. Vets and the Salvation Army to submit proposals. It urges the VA to try to create what we always wanted to create--veterans-only…

I am convinced the goal could be done in months. The bill does not provide for a super technical process. It simply says invite other groups under this bill to provide competitive bids, and it provides an absolute limit of 1 year. So this…

You know, it is heartwarming to sit here for a while and to listen to these personal tales of our good friend, Juanita Millender-McDonald. I first got to know Juanita in our days as activists during the 1980s on the Los Angeles County…

I remember well the debate on this floor in 2002 about whether to give the President the power he sought to take military action, if necessary, against Saddam Hussein. But before that resolution even came to this floor, we considered it in…

I expect to be the chair of the subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee that deals with terrorism and nonproliferation, and I want to focus on those matters in my short presentation here today. The most important issue facing the…

when this House votes to adjourn, we will be voting to put politics above policies, to put the needs of us as politicians over the needs of the American people, for leadership will insist that we leave without dealing with energy…

Well, it has been cleared by the Democratic Party. So it is really just the Republican Party that says we cannot raise the minimum wage.

the President of Iran has just addressed the United Nations General Assembly. He well could have declared victory. Hezbollah, a creature of Iran, created and funded by Iran, attacked Israel. The resulting conflict diverted attention from…

I have always opposed using the suspension process for consideration of controversial legislation. Once again, the Republican leadership is abusing the suspension process to limit debate by bringing H.R. 4893 to the floor as a suspension…

this bill is a sham concealing an insult hiding a hypocrisy. It is a sham legislative process to bring a bill of thousands of pages, which has yet to be distributed to any of us, for a midnight vote. It is an insult to turn to the…

This is a sham procedure. A 1,000-page bill. No time to read it. It is an insulting bill. In order to provide a tiny increase in the minimum wage, we have to give billions of dollars of tax cuts to those who are inheriting from families…

there is no greater problem in this world than our dependence on petroleum. There is no greater problem for our Nation. There is no greater problem for our economy than the fact that we have to import so much oil, sending billions of…

India is a democracy that understands the role of this Congress. They have negotiated a deal that dramatically loosens the controls on their nuclear weapons program, and they know that it is the role of this Congress to make that deal one…

for 10 years I have come to this floor to explain Israel's peril and justify its action. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Hezbollah and Hamas for doing a far better job than I ever could, for they have announced that their policy is…

We have to come to that negotiating table ready with direct talks and ready with enough incentives, as well as disincentives, much in the way that we have begun to do with Iran.

I think it's very concerning. America is not at risk tonight, immediately. But there's no question that not only long-range missiles, but having nuclear weapons and they now have probably six to eight nuclear weapons on a head of…

I am proud to cosponsor H. Res. 900, offered by Ranking Member Barney Frank, which provides that the House of Representatives supports efforts to track terrorist financing and their financial supporters by tracking terrorist money flows…

by this point just about every point has been made. But believe it or not, I would like to make a point that has not yet been stated on this floor. I think we all realize that the development of Iraq, its ability to provide water and…

it is fitting as we have concluded March Madness, the NCAA Championship playoff for men's basketball, that we reflect upon the great success of a man I think is the greatest coach of all time in any sport. That is the Wizard of Westwood…

today I voted present on H. Res. 612. I vote present when a resolution appears well-meaning but its language is flawed. H. Res. 612 is referred to as the ``Iraq Victory Resolution.'' The term victory means many things to different people…

I will be brief, because all that I can say has been said and will be said more eloquently by others on this floor. I wanted to be here for this sad and happy occasion as we celebrate the life and mourn the death of a great American and a…

I rise to address just one aspect of the funding resolution. I have come to this floor before with my concerns that mass mailings have been sent by a particular committee. We as Members of the House have constituents that we need to keep…