Robin Carnahan

there are two sets of issues coming before this Congress before we finish up our work this week. One is the President's request for a blank check to finance this war for the remainder of this fiscal year. I cannot and will not support…

in the war to fight crime in this country we need more than just rhetoric. We need results. During the 1990s, thanks to the initiatives of the Clinton administration and the Democratic Congress, we significantly reduced crime nationwide…

I want to really thank Chairman Miller and Ranking Member McKeon for their leadership on this bill under consideration today. The Improving Head Start Act of 2007 is a very good bill, and I am pleased to be able to support it and be here…

I stand today with enthusiastic support for H.R. 362, 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act. I want to add my thanks to Chairman Gordon and Ranking Member Hall for their leadership on this issue and continued…

the Iraq supplemental will be coming to the floor this week, and it brings together many of the recommendations that we have heard from the nonpartisan Iraq Study Group, from the Pentagon and the President himself, but it provides more…

I stand today for our veterans. The American public has heard the revelations of poor conditions at Walter Reed and other military medical centers around the country. The fact that we are not providing adequate support and resources for…

This bill, H.R. 1129, means a great deal to the congressional district I represent in Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri. It will allow the construction, maintenance and operation of a road to a community in South St. Louis County hard hit…

Today was a remarkable day in this new 110th Congress. This House in a bipartisan way came together, under the leadership of Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado and Michael Castle of Delaware, to pass a bipartisan measure with a strong…

last month the American people demanded change from Washington, and in January they are going to get it. Over the last couple of years, the American people have grown increasingly disillusioned with a government that was not working for…

the President says America is safer today than it was before 9/11, but according to a new report recently released from Foreign Policy magazine at foreignpolicy.com, an overwhelming majority of America's foreign policy experts across the…

with record temperatures set in the first half of 2006, with hurricane season upon us, the need for Congress to address global climate change is more pressing than ever. There is no longer debate within the scientific community. Global…

There is a new set of challenges out there, not just taking care of our current veterans, but this new generation of veterans that are coming back with unique challenges. You mentioned posttraumatic stress issues that we have seen really…

I would really just echo some of the comments that you made about interoperability. When I have met with our police and firefighters, our emergency personnel, our front line responders back home, I mean they tell me that loud and clear. I…

I wanted to say also, I think it is so critical that we listen to our first responders. I think the administration and some in this Congress have really, I think, turned a deaf ear to many of these concerns. If they listened to those first…

It is good to join you tonight, my fellow Members from the freshman class of 2004. This obviously is something that when I go back home to Missouri, whether I am at a Veterans' Day function or a 4th of July function and I talk to our…

it is bad enough that out of the 201 days this year this House has only been in session for 63. We are on track for this House to meet even less than the notorious ``Do Nothing Congress'' that Missouri's Harry Truman ran against in 1948…

last year this House passed the landmark stem cell bill, H.R. 810. We know that President Bush has already authorized research, even though it is arbitrary and artificially restricted, when he made his executive order allowing research on…

this Congress has been consumed with giving tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, and it is time we look at some of the average Americans and facts about the minimum wage. Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum…

it is beginning to sound like a broken record around here: another week of record high gas prices, another Republican bill that benefits oil companies without helping consumers. Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have…

with Memorial Day approaching, it would be nice if the Republican-controlled House had actually done something about gas prices that continue to hover about $3 a gallon. Over the past 5 years, we have seen gas prices double what they were…

I rise to recognize it has been 1 year since this House passed H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research and Enhancement Act, and still there is no action by the Senate. Stem cell research holds the promise of cures for many diseases. Removing the…

Thank you. I just want to say I am so proud to be one of the new Democrats in the House and be here with you all tonight. I was listening to you and thinking about our freshman class, and particularly the Democrats involved. Almost all of…

the cynicism is layer upon layer, but here is the other cynical part of this. They are also using, the Republicans and the Bush administration, this as an excuse to say, well, now, we need to go drill in Alaska, in wilderness areas, and…

We have also been joined by our colleague, Congresswoman Schwartz from Pennsylvania. And welcome. It is great for you to be with us tonight.

I am glad to be here in the House tonight and be joined by some of our colleagues in the freshman Democratic class that was elected in 2004. I believe my colleague, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz from Florida, is going to stay on…