Lois Frankel

I believe we have given much too much authority to the executive in deciding which projects are actually going to end up getting authorized.

They cradled us in our arms when we were babies, picked us off the ground when we scraped our knees, worked long hours to send us to college, and embraced us with unconditional love. I am talking about our parents and our grandparents…

During this week, we sadly recognize and commiserate Equal Pay Day, which marks the number of extra days in 2014 the average woman has to work to earn as much as her male counterpart did in 2013, so I rise for the women who are not here…

Is that something that this committee could entertain as this legislation moves forward?

Anytime you can get more women educated that is a good thing. It helps society.

I hope that these scholarships will bring us many more Malalas into society.

I want to thank you, the ranking member, of course, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, who I work very closely with.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for bringing this issue today.

It is the sense of Congress that recipients of these scholarships commit to improving their local communities.

I want to associate myself with Mr. Garamendi, first of all to just thank you all.

I think we did a really good job on water, and I hope we can do an excellent job on the surface transportation bill.

On Friday, people all over the world will be celebrating Valentine's Day, a day of romance when we express our gratitude to the ones we love. We look forward to our chocolate, our candy, our flowers, and our cards. With that said, Mr…

This great country of ours has weathered hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and fires. Now our families in Florida and across the Nation are confronting a man-made crisis, created unintentionally by past acts of this Congress. An economic…

Henry ``Hank'' Aaron is one of the great athletes to ever set foot on any field, renowned for breaking home run records and racial barriers. With grit and natural talent, he became the home run king of baseball while playing at a time of…

We have a crisis, a crisis in Florida and across this Nation where our constituents are facing skyrocketing jumps in flood insurance premiums, making homeownership unaffordable. Madam Speaker, floods are not partisan, and homeownership…

I found her. Forty years ago I found my friend, Flora, bleeding, near death. She was a victim of an illegal abortion, forced to turn to a back-alley practitioner. She survived, but many like her did not. Today, my Republican colleagues…

Dana Haverman from my home State of Florida is frightened. Despite the fact that she got her first job at age 15, despite the fact that she worked continuously her entire adult life, despite the fact that at age 60 she lost a long-time job…

I remain skeptical of the money we are spending there and the waste and the fraud and all of that.

And we all agree that Iran should not acquire a nuclear weapon.

I say freedom of religion is like the H2O of human rights.

I think it was last month when we went to Cairo. And we met with General al-Sisi and Acting President Mansour, and also we met with the Coptic Pope there.

An Iran with nuclear capabilities is bad. It is bad because it is a state sponsor of terror, it is a habitual human rights violator.

I think everybody agrees that what is happening in Syria is tragic. We would like to have the wrongdoers--it seems like there are many of them--held accountable.

I personally, from what I've heard, would--I am in favor of continuing support.

I asked the question what is your economic plan. I asked that to them several times with absolutely no answer.