Right now, millions of American women and girls are online, navigating their personal and professional lives. Sadly, many will be threatened online or will be subjected to terrifying harassment. Journalists, academics, and other…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 240, line 15, strike ``or'' at the end. Page 240, insert the following after line 20: ``(I)…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding. Mr. Chairman, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed 50 years ago to embody the promise that education is a right, not a privilege. We are supposed to be guardians of that…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. Instead of prioritizing the needs of women and families, we are once again discussing a bill that attacks women's rights. When I ask women in my district what they need…

American women pay taxes, raise their families, contribute to our economy, and are over half of the electorate. Yet rather than helping these women succeed and grow our economy, we give them this bill that forces backward ideological…

Almost every day I hear from the families in my district who are frustrated by the disconnect between what they need and the discussions that we have here in Congress and Washington. Only 1 week into the 114th Congress, the Republican…

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was able to spend time not only with my extended family but with the families of my district. And it struck me--not for the first time--how disconnected much of the conversation in Washington is from the…

The bill before us today is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It is a dangerous attack on the power of knowledge. Supposedly, this bill prevents the Environmental Protection Agency from using secret science to issue regulations. Supposedly, by…

3 weeks ago I held a policy panel on Women's Economic Equality in my district, and when the audience was asked how many of you have worried about the cost of child care, nearly every hand shot up in the air. While the skyrocketing cost of…

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan, our three women Justices stood unanimously against the Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case. They sit on the highest court in the Nation, and by no coincidence…

Harry Truman famously said that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog, and I can tell you that many of our Nation's animal shelters and rescue groups would be more than happy to introduce you to a new friend. Between 5 and 7…

In my home State of Massachusetts, and in many other States across the country, we are battling a crisis that is blind to income, race, gender, and politics. That crisis is opiate addiction. It is happening at a deadly rate across the…