Louise Slaughter

I appreciate that we are debating a rule, for a change, that provides Members of the House a chance to offer their ideas about how we can improve the country's energy policies. We had almost 90 amendments submitted to the Committee on…

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

a dark cloud and a suspicion of corruption hangs over this House of Representatives. It is the talk of the Nation. With no Committee on Standards of Official Conduct or reasonable ethical standards to speak of, there is no hope that the…

I am supportive of this first rule. And I say that I am a bit concerned that it only makes in order 10 of the amendments. As explained by the gentlewoman from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito) we will do the rest today. And I am fervently hoping…

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…

Mr. Speaker, the first day of a new Congress should be a day for hope. It should be a day when all of us look forward with optimism to the work ahead. But today is not that kind of day. Instead, the leadership of this House is beginning…

Mr. Speaker, all over Washington and in the country, people are talking today about the majority's last-minute decision to abandon rules changes that would have eviscerated longstanding ethical guidelines in this House, and, with that, the…

could the attacks of September 11 have been prevented if someone had connected the dots? Could the war in Iraq have been avoided if intelligence had been better? I honestly do not know. But what both situations tragically highlight is one…

we are here to consider a package of reforms that, despite garnering broad bipartisan support throughout the Nation, was not cleared for the floor until today. The House received this blueprint for making America safer in the form of the…

I rise to express my great regrets about the inclusion of the Weldon-authored provision that undermines the rights of a State to enforce its own laws. If this bill passes, and I am sure it will, that means that from now on State and local…

Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New York talks about the great mandate the Republicans got in the election. Why did they not have the guts to bring up an increase in the debt limit before the election? This is no surprise. In…

On just the third legislative day after the election we are yet again confronting a need to raise the Nation's debt limit. It is interesting that even though this problem has been apparent for months the Republican leadership chose to wait…

as of yesterday, the national debt hit $7,444,423,020,967.95. It translates to over $25,000 owed by each and every one of us. The national debt is growing so fast, $1.6 billion every single day, that the last seven digits on the national…

for far too many Americans, justice delayed is justice denied in our Federal Court system. Regrettably, today's Federal courts find themselves without the resources to adjudicate the cases in a timely fashion. Compliance with the Speedy…

Mr. Speaker, I will enter into the Record at this point an article from the Boston Globe entitled "Sticking it to working families," that shows how this Congress is raising taxes on 4 million low-income families which support 9 million…

I want to call a vote for the previous question and urge a ``no'' vote. If the previous question is defeated, I will offer an amendment to the rule that will make in order an amendment that was submitted to the Rules Committee yesterday by…

appropriation bills are the truest expression of Congress' priorities. All year long we may claim to support after-school programs and child care assistance or provide expanded job-search assistance to the 1.2 million unemployed Americans…

Mr. Speaker, an important part of our job is to encourage the purchase of U.S. goods and services by others in the international community, especially now when the economy is limping along and failing to replace the 1.1 million jobs lost…

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 was shocked to learn that House committee was sending mail into the committee members' districts. During yesterday's Committee on Rules hearing on the appropriations bill for the legislative branch, we learned that the Committee on…

Mr. Speaker, historically, manufacturing has been a major generator of good, high-skilled, well-paid jobs and remains a staple of local and State economies throughout the Nation. But manufacturing jobs are disappearing. From January 2001…