Lois Frankel

I just want to say for anyone who has never been there what a beautiful country it is...

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for his leadership, and I thank him for yielding. Well, Mr. Speaker, here we go again and again and again. Once more, politicians are invading the bedrooms of the American women. I stand with…

Not only were his remarks unfair, and prejudicial, and contrary to our American values and way of life, those remarks were dangerous, they were inflammatory, they serve to further pit the United States against the Muslim world at a time…

Yesterday, one of the Presidential candidates... called on our country... to ban Muslims from entering the country.

Bashar al-Assad... he is a scourge to humanity.

I think a lot of us were concerned with this Iran agreement because we saw a direct connection between Iran getting money, more money, funding Hezbollah, and creating this horrible conflict in Syria.

Our folks back home are understandably frightened, and there is no question that ISIL must be destroyed and that the safety of Americans must be our first priority. But denying refuge to women and children who are fleeing rape and torture…

I would say always put women at the center of policymaking.

I would just be repeating myself. I do want to repeat one thing which I think is important. Since the system has been used by FMCSA, there has been a 14 percent reduction in serious violations of the law, and I think that speaks for…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Beginning on page 424, strike line 17 and all that follows through page 426, line 24. Page 428, line 20…

I think you are just hearing some frustration.

This mess in Syria and the Middle East is not the fault of our President.

I thank Mr. Engel, Mr. Smith, and my colleagues on the anti-Semitism Taskforce. Mr. Speaker, Susanne Winter, a member of the Austrian Parliament from the extreme rightwing Freedom Party of Austria, received the following post on her…

Here we go again. Today, we saw the Republicans' latest attempt to punish Planned Parenthood, one of the Nation's premier healthcare organizations, only because it provides an array of services, including legal abortions. Mr. Speaker, at…

I found our trip to Ukraine was very enlightening, and really highlighted the necessity for the free and fair elections in order for Ukraine to regain its civility.

The rise of anti-Semitic incidents throughout Europe in recent years is deeply troubling.

This is probably the most horrific humanitarian crisis of our generation.

We will pay the penalty. Our children will pay the penalty if we ignore this.

I applaud the President for trying a diplomatic settlement. I believe in a diplomatic settlement.

Fifteen seconds. That is how long a child who lives near the Gaza Strip in Israel has to take cover when a missile is shot into their city.

I am not sure what we can do. I am going to--I want to follow up on Mr. Trott's questions, but I know one thing. We cannot turn our back on this.

If a new site emerges in this?

I know we all agree Iran should not get a nuclear weapon, and my approach is just to try to take a non-partisan, objective scrutiny of this, because it is so monumental.

It would put the most dangerous weapon in the hands of the world's foremost sponsor of terror.

And the reason I raise it, is I think part of the frustration for those of us who are trying to see projects move along is that when there is new leadership, there is a learning curve.