Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community, whether they are at work, at home, at school, or at church. Less than 2 weeks ago, five people, four of whom were my constituents, left their homes for work at the Henry Pratt Company in…

Securing our chemical facilities is vital to our National security and to ensure that our communities remain safe.

10 days ago, five people, four of whom were my constituents, left their homes for work at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, and never returned. Their lives were taken by an unspeakably horrible act, gun violence, which happens…

The gender pay gap in my district is shockingly bad. For every dollar that men... women make 71 cents.

I am really encouraged by research showing that gradually raising the minimum wage can help reduce wage inequality and have a positive effect on women's economic security.

if you're working full time to support your family right now at the Federal minimum wage, you are making $15,080 a year. That is not a livable salary anywhere in America today.

This week, we voted for the tenth time to end the shutdown. For people in the 14th District of Illinois, the effects of this Trump shutdown are real, and they are painful. This weekend, I visited a family shelter for survivors of domestic…

This week, we will vote for the tenth time to end the shutdown. I sincerely hope that this is the last time. For the people in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois, the effects of this shutdown are real and they are painful. This…

The people of the Illinois 14th elected me as their Representative to protect their access to healthcare coverage and to make healthcare and prescription drugs more affordable. I am a nurse, and I have a preexisting condition and so I…

on behalf of the people of Guam, I would like to express my support for President Bush and the international community in forcefully addressing the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and his regime in Iraq. In this regard, I strongly support…

today as we look upon the world situation and we are confronting the possibility of a renewed struggle in the Middle East and trying to deal with all the challenges that we face as a result of the activities and actions of Saddam Hussein…

as we consider unfinished legislative business for the 107th Congress, I want to take this opportunity to talk about the continuing challenges facing Guam's economy as well as the economies of other insular areas of the United States. Over…

it is with a most profound sense of remembrance that I rise in support of this resolution, which I am proud to cosponsor. Although Guam, the distant U.S. Territory I have the privilege of representing in this body, is roughly some 10,000…

H.R. 5005, a bill to establish the Department of Homeland Security to safeguard our homeland, to secure our nation for the protection of citizens and property, to defend and preserve our democracy for posterity, to reorganize our…

I commend the progress of the committee on this particular issue, which is a very important issue to the people of Guam, in order to make sure that there is adequate compensation for migration from the Freely Associated States, mostly from…

I come to the floor having been absent all week from the deliberations of the House due to two storms which hit my home island of Guam. The first typhoon, the eye of the storm, passed over Guam on July 5, 2002, Chamorro Standard Time, with…

I rise in support of H.R. 5011, the bill making appropriations for our nation's military construction needs for Fiscal Year 2003. This bill is important legislation that will strengthen our nation's defense capability in addition to…

I am pleased this bill takes important steps to strengthen homeland security by ensuring workable procedures and systems are designed within the federal government to facilitate the sharing of homeland security information among federal…

The Sea Grant Program makes an enormous contribution not simply because of its applied research, but because of technology transfer and an excellent extension service. ... one would hope that eventually not that Sea Grant would reach that…

I too am pleased to speak in support of H.R. 3389, a bill to reauthorize the national sea grant program. I would also like to take this time to express my strong support for the National Sea Grant College Program, my support for the…

Mr. Chairman, as part of the compromise before us, we have agreed to amend the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program to encourage the Secretary of Commerce to strive to ensure equal access for minority and economically…

Mr. Speaker, I am here to express my opposition to the base bill and to speak on behalf of inclusion, to speak on behalf of child care, to speak on behalf of true compassion, to speak on behalf of the Democratic substitute to H.R. 4737…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1963, introduced by our colleague from Illinois (Mr. Costello), provides for a study of the route used by George Rogers Clark and his troops during the military campaign of 1778 and 1779 in what is now Illinois and…

neither myself nor the ranking Democratic member of the Committee on Resources, the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Rahall), have objected to H. Con. Res. 275. The nonbinding resolution of the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen), chairman…

while we debate today's latest House Republican economic stimulus proposal, I would like to once again speak up on behalf of my home district of Guam and the U.S. territories, all of which have been experiencing double digit unemployment…