Louise Slaughter

I cannot help thinking that we are moving back to the 16th century. This is the most far-reaching assault on women that I have ever seen in this House. I want to put a human face on this. In 1963, I was an intern at the Buffalo General…

Before Roe v. Wade was passed, women had no option in the world except to go to a back alley, turning themselves over to unspeakable people with filthy hands and dirty equipment, and oftentimes they had to go to doctors and hospitals to…

I want to remind everybody of a little bit of history. I am sure all of my colleagues remember the great bill on community health centers which we have not been able to reauthorize for a year. At the end of last year it came up for…

I want to say, there is already conscience exemptions and everybody knows that. That is not why we are here today. We are really here today to turn back the clock. Without any doubt, a woman who has the opportunity even to understand what…

I simply want to make the case that if 85 percent of the hospitals refuse to give reproductive services in the United States, women will die.

I think this bill comes into the category of vamp until ready. Obviously, we all understand... we are considering a resolution that shuts out consideration of a meaningful bipartisan substitute that would improve school facilities across…

we are about to begin our annual debate on a procedure that is not really recognized by the medical profession, which is totally unconstitutional, and would not go anywhere. The Supreme Court just recently said again that all the laws that…

Mr. Chairman, this is our annual rite of passage on the Interior bill. I remember that one of my colleagues recently said in the last debate that it just is not right to come down here and lie. Well, we are accustomed to that. It seems…

The bill provides $19.8 billion in new discretionary spending authority for the Department of the Interior and related agencies. This is $546 million more than last year, and almost $900 million more than the President's budget request…

But rather the opposite, a call to leave seniors to the mercies of the private sector and the free market, rather than guarantee them livable, affordable health care. My constituents and others around the Nation are reeling from public…

with the rule before us today, this body is being asked to hand over one of the most popular government programs in history to private insurance companies. Medicare is a critical program, a program that benefits a wide spectrum of our…

Mr. Speaker, I express my opposition to this sham bill that is particularly harmful to senior women. I have seen much in my lifetime, but nothing like the blatant disregard for America's seniors by House Republican Leadership. Prescription…

Mr. Speaker, our constituents are reeling from the daily headlines that highlight the corporate implosions. Companies like Enron, Tyco International and Adelphia Communications, once the darlings of Wall Street and 401(k) managers, are now…

I am stunned that this leadership can take an overwhelmingly popular and important measure, a measure that passed through Committee by voice vote, and load it with so many controversial provisions. This measure employs procedural gimmicks…

Mr. Speaker, the underlying bill is one that impacts millions of Americans. Many of them are our most vulnerable constituents, but the process before us today shuts out any meaningful debate, and blocks consideration of important…

I rise today to express my humblest condolences to our Canadian neighbors on the deaths of four Canadian soldiers who died on April 17, 2002. The people of Canada and their Government have offered their stalwart support to our country in…

The DeGette motion instructs conferees to accept the Senate provision to create the independent Violence Against Women Office in the Department of Justice, and to accept the House provisions defining the duties and authority of the…

This body is about to blow an extraordinary opportunity to address the erosion of trust between the American people and the financial institutions that wield enormous control over their lives. Make no mistake, the outrage of our…

I oppose this closed rule and I oppose the bill that underlies it. The Committee on the Judiciary has handed us yet once again a bill that is blatantly unconstitutional and will never see the light of day because the Senate is not going to…

Mr. Speaker, I know of no Federal law that prohibits a parent from being with a child; but if this law passes, a grandparent could certainly be prohibited from doing this. Fortunately, we know this legislation is not going anywhere. This…

I oppose this closed rule. I oppose the cynicism it embraces and the contempt it demonstrates for honest debate. With this rule, the Republican leadership has blocked amendments offered by Democrats, all in an effort to adapt a flawed and…

I will offer an amendment to this unfair and undemocratic closed rule. Democrats are seeking to make in order two amendments to the budget resolution. The first is a trigger amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran), and…

H. Res. 339 urges the Government of Ukraine to ensure a democratic, transparent, and fair election process leading up to its March 31 parliamentary elections. Just over 10 years after gaining its independence from the Soviet bloc, Ukraine…

I appreciate that people who are unemployed, who have families to feed, who have mortgages to pay, who have no prospects immediately of a job are not terribly interested whether or not we do away with an Alternative Minimum Tax and give…

Mr. Speaker, this morning the morning news from Rochester tells me that this year my district has lost 12,400 jobs. That is almost unheard of in Rochester, New York. In 1929 when the crash came, we hardly noticed it up there. Our…