Lois Frankel

I think your budget is inhumane and dangerous.

After 18 years of a loving partnership, my friends, Tim and Mike, were finally allowed to do what billions of men and women have been doing for many centuries, enter a legal commitment called marriage. Yesterday, I had the joy of…

To continue this, we have to ask this question: Could these young girls have been spared this trauma had proper procedures been in place? And, of course, today our answer is, hopefully, yes. This legislation is a step in a long journey to…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Today, I rise as the proud cosponsor of this important legislation with my friend and colleague from Indiana, Susan Brooks. I want to thank her for her work on this, the Judiciary leadership, and, of…

I thank my great colleague from California and I thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their leadership on a subject of urgency. Mr. Speaker, in the strongest terms possible, I urge support of this bipartisan legislation…

When I returned home to the United States, I heard a story from a young woman named Shandra, who had a work visa to come over here from Indonesia to work in a hotel. On her way over, she was kidnapped by traffickers and forced into…

I thank Mr. Connolly and, of course, the chair of our committee for his fine work and our ranking member. Mr. Speaker, as we have heard already, human trafficking is a global crisis of epic proportions. An estimated 12 to 20 million men…

The word that I got back from them was cruel, it is cruel.

The Global Gag Rule that President Trump has brought back is very, very worrisome.

We put a businessman in charge of the country, and all I can say is OMG about that.

I thank Representative McSally. We have come to, I think, a perfect ending here today--those of us who were here today. I know, on a bipartisan basis, we look forward to fighting for the gentlewoman for what is right and to get this bill…

I thank the gentlewoman for her son's service and for her service, too. I know what it is like to be the mother of a military person. Mr. Speaker, we are waiting for--Representative McSally is going to be with us in a few moments, and I…

I thank Representative Bacon, first, for his service to our country and for speaking from the heart. We are very pleased to join him in this effort. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Torres), who serves on the…

I think we have made it clear that when a member of the military is unfairly abused, we are all abused, we are all dishonored. This is not a Democratic issue. This is not a Republican issue. This is an American issue. Mr. Speaker, I yield…

I thank Representative Kuster for that forceful advocacy. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), one of our greatest fighters for human rights, for women's rights; the ranking member of the Judiciary…

Very well said, Representative Lee. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Lee for her excellent service and advocacy. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield the floor to the gentlewoman from the State of Michigan (Mrs. Lawrence), my co-chair and our vice…

The women of the Democratic Women's Working Group are here today with other Members that we have invited to raise awareness about the offensive Marines United Facebook page and others like it. On these pages, male marines posted nude or…

I thank my colleague from New York. I just returned from a trip to South Korea and Japan, a bipartisan trip, where we focused on the dangers of North Korea. First, I want to just say what became very clear to us is how important our…

I thank Mr. Johnson for yielding, and I also want to thank Chairmen Shuster and Barletta and Ranking Members DeFazio and Johnson for their continued support. I have had the honor of working on this legislation with my friends from Florida…

We need to hear from the administration about how the ideas of safe zones that they are proposing will actually be implemented.

Syria is really one of the tests of our generation. And the tyrants of the world will take note of how we deal with this crisis.

We cannot--and we cannot--remain mute.

It is so important that we send such a clear message that we need to do everything we can in this country to contain the chaos and reduce the conditions causing this mass migration from Syria to take the wind out of the sails of the…

This trafficking is a global crisis that is hurting men, women, and children all over the world.

I represent South Florida, beautiful Palm Beach, the home of Mar-a-Lago.