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Deborah Koff Ross is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development during her time in office. Ross has been an advocate for women's rights and has worked to promote policies that support families and children. Before her election to Congress, she served in the North Carolina General Assembly, where she was known for her commitment to public service and community engagement.
this is important to note, and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Israel) mentioned it earlier this evening, those of us with families, we get around the kitchen table and we have to balance the family budget. My wife and I own a small-town…
Just 5 years ago. Ever since I was a small child growing up in Hope, Arkansas, I heard people talk about how it was the Democrats who spent all the money; yet it was President Clinton that left this Nation with a balanced budget from 1998…
it sounds outlandish, until you stop and look at history. No country has stood forever. Every country has undergone changes. What the gentleman is saying is according to the Government Accounting Office, not some Democratic Party group or…
gas prices are rising at alarming rates across the country, and these costs are hurting America's working families. The average price of a gallon of gas in Arkansas is $2.11, up from $1.72 just a year ago. That is a 22.6 percent increase…
our Nation finds itself today in a financial crisis. This year, our deficit is projected to exceed $589 billion. Last year's deficit was $412 billion. Seventy percent of that money was borrowed from foreigners, including China and Japan…
I rise today and join 43 of my Democratic colleagues to voice my support for H.R. 3193, a bill that would allow citizens of the District of Columbia to own rifles, shotguns and handguns. The second amendment of the Constitution of the…
On the 4th of July our Nation will celebrate its 228th birthday. On this day, we will remember how our Founding Fathers dedicated their lives to honor the novel ideas of liberty, equality, and democracy. Today, our brave men and women in…
after months of record-breaking gasoline prices, the pocketbooks of America's working families are hurting. Rising gas prices mean working families have less money to spend on important items, such as clothing and groceries, a factor that…
the great communicator, an all-American patriot, relentless pursuer of freedom, these qualities describe America's 40th President, Ronald Reagan. We can all agree that President Reagan's enduring love for his country and his idealistic…
in my home State of Arkansas, nearly 75,000 people are out of work today. Unemployment has increased by 19 percent in the last 3 rac{1}{2} years. However, our Nation's Treasury Secretary John Snow is visiting Arkansas today to talk about…
Today the new prescription drug discount cards went into effect as part of the Republicans so-called Medicare bill that passed in December. Few seniors have signed up for these so-called discount cards because they provide little, if any…
in America we have 44 million people today without health insurance. We are the only industrialized nation in the world where people go without health insurance. And who are they? It is the folks that are trying to do the right thing and…
as the Congress and the country mark Cover the Uninsured Week, I add my voice to those who are ready to do something meaningful about the problem of the uninsured. Nearly 80 percent of the uninsured are the working poor, and often work in…
as the proud son of public school educators and a father of two children attending public school, I am concerned about the state of education in America. Education is one of America's most fundamental building blocks. A solid education…
over the past 3\1/2\ years our country has seen a loss of 2.8 million manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing jobs today are at a 53-year low. In fact, Arkansas, the State I represent, has lost one out of every seven manufacturing jobs since…
as the owner of a small town family pharmacy and a wife who is a pharmacist, I see seniors who cannot afford their medicine. So I came here to help our seniors with the high cost of prescription drugs. This bill does not do that. This…
In 2001, the Republican Congresswoman, the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Emerson), and I offered up a bipartisan plan that would truly modernize Medicare to include medicine for our seniors, that recovered 80 percent of the cost of…
We have primarily tonight talked about the Medicare prescription drug benefit, or the lack of it, under the Republican prescription drug plan, but this 1,100-page bill, which they have not even allowed us to see yet, has other provisions…
the bottom line, all this talk on the floor of the House of Representatives, the vote that is going to occur is going to boil down to this, that in 2006 seniors are going to get a prescription drug plan written by the big drug…
I have seen so many seniors walk through the doors of our pharmacy who either could not afford their medicine or could not afford to take it properly. And living in a small town, Prescott, Arkansas, population 3,400, I know a week or two…
Members of Congress pay 25 percent of the cost of the medicine, at least under the health plan that I am on and most of us are on. There are several options to choose from, and anyone with private health insurance, and again we have got…
Number 1, the discount is not being paid by the drug manufacturer, which is 87 percent of the cost to the manufacturer. The discount is being paid by your family pharmacy in amounts of 50 cents to $3. More importantly, and I do not think…
after years of talk about the need to help our seniors with the high cost of prescription drugs, it appears that sometime this week, or perhaps this weekend, this Congress will be voting. They will be voting on a bill that is nothing more…
I am as sick and tired of all the partisan bickering as anyone else. I do not look at an idea and look at whether it is just a Democratic idea or Republican idea. I look at it, is it a commonsense idea? If it is, then I support it. But…
I live in a small town, a town that lost its hospital back in 1995. Our folks now go 16 miles down the road to the hospital in Hope, Arkansas. Living in a small town, I see so many seniors that end up 16 miles down the road in the hospital…
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