Lois Frankel

Under the bill, foreign companies and banks will have to choose. They will have to choose between doing business with the Assad regime or doing business with the United States.

Assad's brutality--and his support from Russia and Iran and Hezbollah--has fueled a mass migration crisis and regional instability that, frankly, threatens our national security.

And that is why combating human trafficking requires a global approach to identifying and apprehending the worst offenders in the world.

These facts should not be subject to manipulation for the sake of diplomatic or economic or political considerations.

This ambitious bill not only extends the legal authorities from the groundbreaking Trafficking Victims Protection Act that, as I recall, Mr. Smith authored 17 years ago, but it also contains important reforms to our foreign and domestic…

I want to start by thanking the thousands of professional flight attendants and pilots and the counter people that work in this industry, who do very good jobs and work very hard.

Thank you very much to the panel for being here.

It is an honor to be with you today. First of all, I want to celebrate Jeannette Rankin also as being the first woman in Congress. Today I am going to talk about someone who was my role model, one of my favorites, Bella Abzug. Bella Abzug…

How does our President have the moral authority to sit across the table from a world leader and say, 'You've got to keep it clean. You've got to count the votes?'

We are living in a world with a lot more danger and terror, and decimating the State Department is, I will say it respectfully, not smart--dumb, not smart.

The need for diplomacy, development, and defense.

Today is International Women's Day, a day without women. I am going to join millions of women in recognizing the important economic power of women in the United States and around the globe. In a few minutes, I will exit this Chamber with…

Listen, I believe Putin is about Putin. Putin isn't trying to help Mr. Trump because he likes Mr. Trump.

The Russian interference with our election to me is the scariest of recent activities that I have learned about.

For women to thrive in the economic and social opportunities of our Nation, we must have the ability to control our own reproductive lives with full access to healthcare choices. Now, here we go again: another Republican bill aimed at…

Russia is an alarming force in the world, a nuclear power with an authoritarian President, menacing our European allies with invasion into Ukraine and threats of incursion into other Baltic states, lifting mass murderer Assad in Syria…

I think that is an abomination.

I hope that Brexit was not just a extreme nationalistic reaction with unintended consequences of gigantic proportions.

I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado. Madam Speaker, for women to thrive in the economic and social opportunities of our Nation, we must have the ability to control our own reproductive lives with full access to real healthcare choices…

The age of coat hanger medicine has returned. It may be a new year, a new Congress, a new administration, but Republicans are taking us back to a dangerous past, one where women were maimed and killed by back-alley abortions. Today, our…

I am very pleased to stand here in support of the Water Infrastructure Improvements Act for the Nation, also known as WIIN, because this legislation is a big win for my home State of Florida. There are two projects in there that I would…

I thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel, first, for the great bipartisan work. I really appreciate being on this committee. I want to tell you a story that one of our Ambassadors told me that I thought was amazing. I won't say her…

I join my Democratic colleagues in opposing funding for a legislative panel that, instead of protecting, is jeopardizing life. Just ask the wife and 4 children and 10 grandchildren of George Tiller, a good doctor, who, while attending…

I bring this amendment on behalf of myself and Mr. Curbelo of Miami, Florida. It is a very excellent commonsense amendment. It is an authorization that requires no money, and it strikes an archaic, 30-year-old provision from law. I would…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, insert the following: SEC. __. ACQUISITION OF BEACH FILL. Section 935 of the Water…