Carol Shea-Porter

There are many families that really should receive this, must receive it, but they don't fall inside the strict eligibility program.

The LIHEAP program is one of the most crucial support structures for millions of families throughout the country.

Now, with a new Administration and President, we have the opportunity to develop a budget that is both honest in our assessment of the country's finances and adequately reflects the needs of the country.

Now with the new administration and a new President, we have the opportunity to develop a budget that is both honest in our assessment of the country's finances and adequately reflects the need of our great country.

These choices must be made in the face of an economic crisis and years of harmful cuts and inadequate funding for critical programs by the previous administration.

We can't achieve wellness and reduce the escalation of the cost of health care for everyone or stop the drain on the health care system across our communities by disparities and uninsurance without addressing the defects of deficiencies in…

I have been working to fix this inequity since I came to Congress 2 years ago, and I look forward to working with you to pass a budget that will give the VA the resources needed to provide more medical care to our New Hampshire veterans.

I do not think there are too many people in New Hampshire who do not believe we are experiencing climate change.

If we don't do anything, then we have millions of people who will fall through the safety net.

Yesterday was an absolutely glorious day. We watched the peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next. Standing there, I had the great honor of looking out at millions of my fellow countrymen and women who came together to…

I support H.R. 2, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. We have children in New Hampshire and in America who need us to fight for them. Unemployment is rising. Even working families are losing their health…

For fiscal year 2009, the President proposed just $2 billion for LIHEAP, a $570 million painful cut from what Congress provided for 2008. This irresponsible cut could force New Hampshire to lose over $2.5 million in funding next year. I…

Today we will vote on a comprehensive energy bill, finally. This country has waited 32 years for an increase in mileage standards. Thirty-two years. We have also waited for Congress to focus on renewables, green jobs and energy…

Americans are divided over many issues, but we are not divided over health care for our children. We are a good people, and we want our children to have health care. None of us want to see children in this country without health care…

The committee has also included language addressing the problem of complexes. Would the chairman clarify the committee intent to reduce the number of complexes where refuges are consolidated into groups with staff overseeing multiple…

Today we thank all those who have toiled in the fields of our community, including my maternal grandmother, who left the comfort of her home each day at the turn of the century and went to the Lower East Side to help immigrants. And we…

Reclaiming my time, yes. I absolutely agree that this is wasting our time. We are earning our paycheck from the American people, and we need to do the work of the American people.

People in New Hampshire are deeply concerned; both parties, by the way, are deeply concerned about global warming. And they want us to get on with the job of taking care of this and not spending our time and the people's time. And we are…

I am urging my colleagues today to pass the College Student Relief Act. I speak not only as a Congresswoman from New Hampshire, but also as the mother of a college student and one about to enter college. These student loan interest rates…

I am the parent of two children with asthma, and my husband has asthma also. When my children were young, I spent many hours beside their bed helping them to breathe with machines, giving them medicine that had side effects that were very…