Lois Frankel

In honor of Women's History Month, I want to recognize a remarkable woman from south Florida, my friend, Rosemary Barkett. Rosemary is an inspiring, humble woman with a joyous spirit and passion for justice who has devoted her life to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1471, the FEMA Disaster Assistance Reform Act, and I thank the chairman and ranking member for their fine work. The bill contains a bipartisan provision which I had…

And I want to also just reemphasize the request for a greater stakeholder involvement in deciding which projects to fund.

But why is that? I mean, why, why go through all--I mean, you go through so much work to evaluate these projects, and then it seems like it was for naught.

Is $300,000 sufficient?

Could you explain that?

I want to again thank you all for your service. I want to just go back to Everglades restoration, which you know is so important to Florida.

The beaches are much more than just places for people to get sunburns as you know.

I want to just thank you so much on including that in this report and for the cooperation we've been getting.

OK. Well, will you get back to me on that. Yes?

OK, well, that's good. OK. I like that answer.

I just--I want to thank you. We've had a very cooperative, excellent relationship with you all.

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

I thank Mr. Takano for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 677, a bill that honors American veterans disabled for life. I thank my friend from Florida, Chairman Jeff Miller, for cosponsoring this bill with me and shepherding…

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, in a bipartisan spirit, I offer a motion to…

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…

Here is what the terrorists say: ``America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check…

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 thank the chair, ranking member, and all the colleagues who worked so hard on bringing this legislation to the floor. My amendment is really about improving this bill. It is going to make it a better bill, and it is about making our…