Brian Higgins: “Louise McIntosh Slaughter served the people of Rochester in Monroe County, as well as the city of Buffalo, in the United…”

“Louise McIntosh Slaughter served the people of Rochester in Monroe County, as well as the city of Buffalo, in the United States Congress from 1987 until her untimely death last week. Louise Slaughter was a champion of progressive causes and a liberal lioness in the United States Congress. She knew who she was fighting for, and she knew how to fight. For the homeless, the hopeless, and the voiceless, Louise Slaughter championed all their causes because her political ethos was forever to defend the dignity of every citizen. She never deviated from that cause and reinforced it each and every day on the floor of this Congress, the institution that she loved. She served as chair and ranking member of the Rules Committee and championed the first $500 million earmark for breast cancer research to the National Institutes of Health and the Violence Against Women Act. These are among a long list of impressive accomplishments that were championed by Louise Slaughter. Her friends and her family will miss her, but her accomplishments will forever be enshrined on this institution representing the people that she loved in Rochester and Monroe County. ____________________”