Louise Slaughter

everything about this debate is heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking the misinformation that has been disseminated. The thing that hurts me most hurt me back in the days before abortion was legal for women. And that is that women have no…

the United States suffered a terrible loss with the recent bombing in Centennial Park in Atlanta. We lost our innocence and our faith it will never happen here. It is becoming increasingly probable that black or smokeless powder was…

I rise today to send a warning to my colleagues who believe that Medicare and Medicaid reductions will not reduce the availability of affordable quality health care for millions of low-income children, senior citizens and the disabled. I…

today I join with my fellow colleagues to pay tribute to a truly great American, the late Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown. To many of us, Ron Brown was not only a cabinet member with an impressive record of accomplishment, but he was also…

in every way this debate today is a tragedy. First, I want to make it very clear, as clear as I can to people who are interested in knowing the truth, that the third trimester abortions, and the partial-birth abortions are very rare and…

I am very concerned today. I am very concerned about the ability of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to conduct its business in a fair and impartial manner, because of press reports that we have seen throughout this…

I know that we all agree on the urgent need to combat foreign and domestic terrorism. I wish the Committee on Rules had adopted an open rule, which is the only way that we can fully debate such an important and controversial issue. Several…

if the purpose for this amendment today is to find out how much Federal money is being used to lobby by nonprofit groups, I can give the answer right now. Zero. It has been against the law here for years. The IRS has never had a single…

I am rising in objection today to at least another measure to restrict women's constitutional rights that has appeared in this bill. I am referring to section 507 of the Communications Act of 1995 that would prohibit the exchange of…

I want to tell everyone what Washington's dirty little secret is... The committee staff of this group over here forged a document yesterday. They took a letterhead from an organization that they had asked to come in to testify, took it, as…

on the Waco hearings we found that the committee had turned over lots of its responsibilities to the NRA, and now we find this same committee staff is forging documents to be given out to the press purporting to be a true statement. Mr…

persons who are watching this afternoon, I have to tell you, if you are really going to find out what happened at that subcommittee meeting yesterday, I am afraid we are going to have to send you copies of the committee transcript…

I rise today to urge all my colleagues to support my resolution to demand that our Government work to stop the sex trafficking and forced prostitution of women and girls from Burma into Thailand. I was appalled and disgusted to discover…

Mr. Chairman, there has been enough tragedy in all of these rescission bills to go around. I see a very great bright spot in what the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Porter] is doing today. In the United States there are anywhere between…

I am sure everybody is confused. They have to be. Who is the best crime fighter in America today? None of us know. But there are a couple things that I know from experience that I had in chairing a public safety committee in the county…

how many more headlines like these do we have to read, and how many more times do we have to hear abut a sexual predator who was released from jail and then terrorized new victims? Just yesterday, the New York Times and the New York Post…

Mr. Chairman, I wish I had the eloquence and the power to try to reach out to the Members of this House today and give some idea of the depth of harm we are doing. But I know that the die is cast on this bill and that my words would just…

Mr. Chairman, why do we want to collect this information nationally? We know a lot of things about sexual predators. One thing is that we cannot treat them as other criminals, that they are very apt to be repeat offenders. We know they…

I want to talk about a reform we did make. Two-and-a-half years ago in the wake of the problems in the bank and the post office, I served as a member of a bipartisan task force which drafted House Resolution 423, an unprecedented effort to…

the debate that should have taken place about 2 years ago at the end of the cold war was what was the United Nations going to be? We have sent in again to this conflagration in former Yugoslavia people dressed in suits and blue helmets and…

Mr. Speaker, as I close this debate I would like to make a few remarks that just reiterate what has been said. Obviously this has a lot to do with the First Amendment, the rights of free expression and free speech. Unfortunately over the…

Mr. Speaker, one of the things that has been going through my mind a lot since the 19 children were found in the 2-room apartment in Chicago sitting on the floor fighting with the dogs over neck bones is that one of the things that right…

Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by saying that more New Yorkers die on a yearly basis from gunshot wounds than die from vehicular accidents, and that the cost to the American health care system from gunshot wounds is $1.4 billion a year and…

I yield myself such time as I may consume in order to respond to the gentleman. Now, I am sure if Members of Congress were to walk down in front of the White House and threaten people who were trying to go inside and interfere with the…

If a person is standing in front of the White House attempting to shut it down or if they threatened to burn it down or blow it up or to kill people inside----