Louise Slaughter

I think innovation was very much at the heart of the complaint we filed against Facebook, right, that was not a price complaint.

I am really excited about the opportunity to take a fresh look at a broader range of questions in pharmaceutical mergers than our traditional approach has taken.

Yes, so I think for a long time there has been a general sense in the antitrust world that vertical mergers are rarely bad, and in fact, may be mostly good.

We will do incalculable harm if we did not keep that going, and we are better people than that.

Please, please do not let the NEA get killed. I feel like I have been begging you forever.

It simply does not let us off the hook that we say we are really sorry it happened if we don't try to make sure it doesn't happen all the time in the country.

These are victims in the strongest sense of the word, the children who have been preyed upon by those who would take advantage of the situation.

To say that I am completely appalled and embarrassed by that number is an understatement.

We have all said so many times and we believe with all our hearts that the children in this country are our most important resource.

We cannot allow this to continue. We owe it to these children to ensure our Nation's foster care system does all it can to protect them.

I think we are going to see that, and I am greatly concerned about whether or not we are going to be able to keep really good people.

I think they are probably the hardest-working people on the Hill, but they are also in demand in the City of Washington because of the skills they could bring to a better job with much higher pay.

I strongly urge him to do that. If legislation is necessary, we are prepared to act.

Financial independence is absolutely necessary to building a new life.

I have significant concerns that the Federal Reserve Board's interpretation of the CARD Act could result... in stay-at-home spouses being denied access to credit.

Oh, for goodness sake, last week we passed a bill worth hundreds of billion of dollars with less than a two-day layover and no one knew what was in it.

But speaking of the Full Faith and Credit, Mr. Frank, I must tell you how much I appreciated your comments that we have troops all over the world and that we don't any longer have the necessity of protecting Germany from Stalin.

As our Nation continues to shift from an industrial manufacturing economy to one based on ideas and information, cities and States increasingly recognize that arts and culture are important economic assets.

Our creative industries have not been immune to the ongoing economic crisis. In fact, they have been particularly hard hit as corporate donations decrease, consumer spending on arts and culture activities dwindle, organizations struggle to…

Arts are and remain an important part of our Nation's economy and it is a reflection of our culture.

We should never in this world have had salmonella infections from spinach.

As a microbiologist, it has been really offensive to me, as I mentioned earlier, to watch what has happened to Staphylococcus aureus.

Getting the antibiotics off the market would preserve the efficacy of drugs for both humans and animals.

We need to reduce that use, and we can, because most of the drugs used by food producers... are not used to treat sick animals.