Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I am literally losing my voice, but somehow I will find the strength to make my voice heard on this dangerous bill. I rise today to speak against this bill's completely dated, out-of- date insistence on stripping women of their fundamental freedoms, not to mention the 80 percent cut to title I across this country. This is funding for our most at-risk students everywhere, in every community in this country. It will eliminate over 200,000 teachers and jeopardize the education of 26 million students. First, I will take you back to a week ago when Americans all across this country from Ohio to Kentucky to Virginia came out in droves to reject extremist efforts to strip a woman's right to make decisions about her own body. Now, Republicans here in Washington are doubling down on that same out-of-touch agenda, this time by sneaking partisan policy wins into what is supposed to be a bipartisan process for funding our government. Conservatives have spent 50 years saying abortion should be left up to the States. They finally got their way when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now, even after local communities everywhere are demonstrating clearly that they believe in a woman's fundamental freedoms, radical House Republicans are doing everything they can to make abortion illegal at a national level. It is time to wake up, listen to women across this country from the coasts to the hills to the deserts who have spoken and will continue to say: Hands off our bodies.…”