Political Quotes

“Last month, as the Appropriations Committee considered the FSGG funding bill, the Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of stripping American women of a constitutional right to decide their own reproductive destiny. Extremist Justices, inventing flimsy arguments against a right that Americans have enjoyed for nearly 50 years, opened the door for radical legislators to ban abortion. This is a crisis, and a crisis means all hands are on deck. With my friends, Representatives Lee, DeGette, and Frankel, I am offering an amendment to ensure that the FSGG bill is in the fight. This amendment prohibits any Federal funds from my bill from being used in contravention to President Biden's executive order on protecting access to reproductive healthcare. This is not just about the executive order itself. It is about the policies and recommendations that will result from it. The interagency policymaking effort to address barriers to abortion access must include FSGG jurisdiction, and Federal agencies must all work to swiftly and fully implement solutions to these barriers. In addition, FSGG has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. Anti-abortion extremists go so far as to try to tell D.C. taxpayers that they cannot make their own decisions about whether to support access to reproductive care. I am here to say that D.C. citizens shouldn't be bullied by extremists pushing an ideological agenda.…”