Louise Slaughter

May I inquire from my colleague if he is ready to yield back, then I will close.

Again I ask a ``no'' vote on the previous question, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I want to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), who was also maligned in the report.

I rise in opposition to S.256 because the bill does nothing to address the problem of identity theft or protect its victims.

We deserve the facts, or this democracy will suffer.

I don't want to be fed propaganda from this White House. I don't want people to be paid to give it to me.

But for 18 years in Congress, I have been trying to fight for some fairness and some decency in the media.

The fact that they credentialed him when he wouldn't comment is an indication that they wanted him in. They knew who he was. If they were willing to go that far to fool us, then I think that some remedy somewhere has got to be sought.

I urge a no vote on the previous question. I call on all Members of this House, particularly the freshmen casting their first vote, please vote for ethics today. Do not vote against the Constitution. Vote for this House that you will love…

Let me just close by saying, Mr. Speaker, that the amendment offered by our colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman), was perfectly germane. The only reason in the world it was turned down was for political reasons. It was a…

I am stunned at what the previous speaker has just said. What does he mean that no Democrat has expressed any outrage? Has the gentleman polled every Democrat in the country? Does he know that no Democrat has expressed outrage over the…

CBO reports that proponents of limiting malpractice liability argue greater savings in health care, possible through reductions in practice of defensive medicine. However, the defensive medicine is motivated less by liability than by the…

Not only for the drug industry, Mr. Speaker, but for the people who manufacture medical devices. I know that is hard to believe, given that the drug companies just cleaned up from the Medicare bill passed here, but they are indemnified in…

I simply wanted to ask him if he is aware that the administration has just given AARP a $20 million grant and ask if he wondered if that had anything to do with their decision.

First, Roe v. Wade does not allow abortions after the first trimester without a doctor's permission. These are fetuses in many cases with no brains, with no lungs, who may live for a moment or two. These are not children that are born and…

I simply want the record to reflect that it is not correct that AmeriCorps volunteers make $30,000. They have a small stipend to pay for their living expenses and $5,000 on their college loans. That is it. It is a bargain.

I simply wanted to remind the House that this is probably one of the most important votes that they are going to take because their constituents are waiting to see where we fall. Are we with the pharmaceutical companies, or are we with…

Control of one's reproductive autonomy is a fundamental human right. But the basic right is meaningless without the knowledge and means to exercise reproductive autonomy. The United Nations Population Fund, known as UNFPA, works with…

This Medicare bill fails to provide women with real prescription drug coverage they need and deserve.

Mr. Speaker, with unemployment rates increasing daily, this is the third month in a row, now that we are in May, that this economy has lost jobs. Of the 8.8 million unemployed, 2 million out of work for 27 weeks or more, the average length…

The President is intent on going to war. He continues to take us down a path to war. The papers carry today the story that the stimulus package is going to be eaten up by the war. You can pour that $700 billion into the economy, and it…

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…

Mr. Speaker, sponsors of the bill do claim that this is just a simple clarification of existing law, but that is absolutely not the case. This is an enormous change in Federal law and would represent an unprecedented intrusion by Congress…

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.

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…