Carol Shea-Porter

Although our community has benefitted enormously from energy development, our list illustrates that the costs of maintaining infrastructure and public services have outstripped our ability to fund these necessities.

I don't understand why so many people in this country brag about our past technology achievements while they deride and criticize our present technology achievements and absolutely doubt this future.

Considering our unemployment rate is over 8 percent right now and we have lost millions of jobs, is this really a big job-creator?

The American public wants accountability. We want accountability, and I think we also want to make sure that it is not just a lesson learned.

People in New Hampshire say to me, where are the indictments? Who is looking, and is there ever going to be anybody who has to pay for this?

If we think this is a problem now, imagine what it would be like if we had some kind of problem where people couldn't access food.

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.

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

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

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.

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…

every day, American consumers are being squeezed at the pump. They can no longer afford for Congress to be divided on this issue. I urge every Member of Congress to support legislation on the floor that would compel the oil industry to…

I am pleased as Speaker Pelosi decided to assert Congress' power over international trade by waiving ill-advised fast-track rules, and I hope the decision to waive the 90-day deadline for a vote on the Colombia FTA will effectively kill…

Thank you for the time, and I thank Chairman Spratt and the Budget Committee for producing a fair and responsible budget, a moral document that is fiscally responsible. Mr. Chairman, I have been deeply concerned about the President's…

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…

as a former social worker and administrator and a cosponsor of the GIVE Act, I rise today to express my strong support for H.R. 2857. I was able to see firsthand the hard work and self-sacrifice and dedication of our AmeriCorps volunteers…

I am happy to be here. I am standing here tonight at 10:30 for the same reason that we are all here, because we believe that it's our obligation, our duty to defend the Constitution. This Constitution is a gift that has been handed to us…

as we prepare to mark the unfortunate 6-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, a war that is being financed by deficit spending, it's important to recognize the serious effects this war is having on our military. Our generals are warning…

We were looking for a bipartisan agreement. If it's that critical, then we should have had the extension. But they know what we know, which is that FISA is still in effect, that they can eavesdrop without a warrant. That they simply, if…