"The right to choose is not limited to the right to end the pregnancy but includes the right to become pregnant and the right to bring a healthy child into the world."
"This bill will not liberate or empower women but will further shackle them."
"this bill will, however, deprive women of their fundamental constitutional rights to personal and bodily autonomy."
"Now my questions. Madam Secretary, do you agree that we need to change to the policies which lead to the repeated transfer of detainees so that we can finally protect their due process rights and impr..."
"I am concerned about threats to religious liberty in America, threats from legislatures, from the Supreme Court, from candidates, and from demagogues."
"Too often, the rights of unpopular minorities are trampled upon by the majority, and when it comes to religion, everyone is unpopular somewhere."
"That appalling hostility to religious liberty, coming as it did from a Justice who is hailed as an icon of the conservative movement, was truly chilling."
"Congress responded swiftly with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act or RFRA, legislation that I was privileged to work on when I was first elected to Congress."
"I thank the Chairman for yielding."
"We have to leverage private funds. I am not saying this is a substitute for public funds. It is not."
"The chairman's mark for the service transportation bill would be a 35-percent cut in funding. That is exactly the wrong direction to be going in."
"We have to be careful about falling prey to lofty rhetoric about somehow finding a magic formula, a magic non-political formula for project selection."