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Wendy Sherman is a prominent American diplomat and a member of the Democratic Party, currently serving as the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. She has played a significant role in U.S. foreign policy, particularly in relation to global health and international relations with China. Sherman is known for her emphasis on collaboration in addressing global challenges, including pandemics, and has articulated the importance of managing the U.S.-China relationship as a key geopolitical issue of the current era. Her extensive experience in diplomacy includes serving as the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.
over the last decades, we have moved from the largest creditor Nation to the largest debtor Nation in the world. We now run a trade deficit of nearly half a trillion dollars every year. The dollar is on the road to crashing sometime in the…
I would propose that we make that room available to provide housing for the homeless. Because what went on in that room in crafting this bill has nothing to do with the bill that reaches the floor. If all of our financial services bills…
I rise along with the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers) and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey) and 199 cosponsors in support of a Federal hate crimes statute. We must show the world that we are not engaged in a war on Islam…
let me begin with a commentary on the comments from the gentlewoman from Georgia, who quoted French sources as criticizing as inadequate our relief supplies to the people of Afghanistan. I agree we should do as much as we can to feed the…
I rise to address several aspects of the recent tragedy, the recent outrage. I want to associate myself with the statements of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bonior) when he came to this floor and talked about how important it was that…
Mr. Speaker, in certain foreign cities there were those who danced in the streets believing that the terrorists' ability to kill thousands of American civilians showed the terrorists' strength. America's strength is not our ability to kill…
Yesterday we suffered the greatest loss of American life on American soil since our Civil War. I fear that we are reacting as if a few hundred Americans died at the hands of a small band of terrorists. I fear that we will just launch a…
our hearts are filled with sympathy for the victims of what looks like the greatest loss of life on American soil since our Civil War, I fear greater even than Pearl Harbor. After Pearl Harbor, there were a few timid souls who said that we…
the energy bill is a bonanza for big oil. It lets them drill in environmentally sensitive lands, gives them $30 billion in tax cuts and another $7 billion of rollbacks and royalties. Listen to this. They tell us government should act like…
it is interesting to spend hours here listening to the exponents of States' rights come here with patronizing lectures taken out of economics 101 textbooks to tell California what we need. The fact is that electricity is a unique product…
in 1999, California paid $7 billion for electrical generation. A year later, last year, we paid $32.5 billion for the same amount of electricity. Today, with conservation efforts, we will use no more electricity than we did 2 years ago…
Mr. Chairman, I rise, not only as a member of the Committee on International Relations, but as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. Just a few weeks ago, I had a chance to tour both NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange. These…
I rise in support of H.R. 640. I am pleased to join in that effort with my distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Ventura County, California (Mr. Gallegly). Mr. Speaker, my colleague from California has explained the importance of the…
I just want to point to that chart. The bill before this Congress to provide for rate caps or for regulation of these wholesale energy prices is supported not only by the governor of California, but by the governors of Oregon and…
No blackouts. Good service. No problems. Where we had regulation, as we had in our State for well over 50 years, no problem; where we have municipal ownership even today in the City of Los Angeles and other cities in California, no…
I should point out that while I say Los Angeles has no problem, we are bound together with the rest of the State, just as the whole country is bound to California, and the economic problems facing the other cities in the State of…
Well, yes. What has happened is that because we do not regulate these wholesale costs, they have an incentive to withhold supply and drive the price up. Instead of making a megawatt for $30 and selling it for the regulated price of $50…
we have heard from the others, and it is interesting. They have told us the deficits of Reaganomics are so bad that they try to blame the Democratic Congress. We are told that if there is a large pile of money left in Washington, D.C., it…
We do not know what is in that tax bill. As I understand it, there is no Democrat in the room where the tax bill is being written, although they call it a conference committee. But we do know that when they emerge, one-third to one-half…
I would point out that I think we have saved quite a number of States from disaster. How many of our Members have said to me, my State was thinking of deregulation. Boy, we stopped that one in a hurry. I would point out that yes, there are…
I have come to this floor every evening this week to try to eliminate and dispel some of the misinformation about what is going on in California and the West and how we got into this situation. I want to take some time to describe the…
I might add, in describing the bill that we both support, it is indeed temporary; just a couple of years. It is being called price caps. It is actually something that is less opposed than price caps by those that oppose it. It is…
I will share the five proofs that there were no bars toward building plants in California. The first is it is simply not true. We are elected officials, some would say politicians. When a private company wants to build something big and…
if I can just add some of the statistics to back this up. Earlier we were talking about getting plants permitted. During the 8 years in which we had a Republican governor, we had zero plants permitted. Just in the last 2 years under a…
Absolutely. Mr. Speaker, there are 50 great States. Some listening to my earlier remarks maybe thought that I thought there were only 49 great States, and I was somehow criticizing Texas. Texas is also a great State. I talk to my…
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