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Nita M. Lowey was a prominent Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative for New York's 17th congressional district from 1999 until 2021. She was the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee, a position she held from 2019 to 2021, where she played a crucial role in shaping federal budgetary decisions and funding allocations. Throughout her tenure, Lowey was known for her advocacy on issues such as healthcare, education, and women's rights, and she worked to secure funding for various programs benefiting her constituents and communities across the nation.
Later today, the House will continue its extreme assault on women's health. H.R. 3 would prevent small businesses and families from receiving tax credits for private insurance coverage that includes safe and legal health procedures; allow…
My colleague, who also has a district very close, Nita Lowey, and I have introduced a nuclear power licensing reformat, which is H.R. 1268.
Whether you are approving a new power plant or relicensing a new power plant, safety concerns are safety concerns.
It concerns me, and I hope it concerns you because obviously there needs to be a focus on protecting the health and safety of our citizens.
I rise in strong opposition to the resolution. The right wing's failed radical attempt to block funding for Planned Parenthood has now devolved to procedural games instead of a renewed focus on creating jobs. Federal law prohibits Federal…
I rise in strong opposition to the resolution. The House should be debating legislation to create jobs, not procedural tricks to repeal health reform and increase our deficit. Under this resolution, pregnant women and cancer survivors…
The fiscal challenges our nation faces are the result of the irresponsible policies of the Bush administration and costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as necessary measures that continue helping our economic recovery after the most…
I am here to ask your consideration in not only maintaining that budget item, but also to plus it up to get to the level of about $21 million.
I am so impressed with those Peace Corps youngsters. They really do more to promote goodwill and really make a difference in attitudes.
I hope you can use that eloquence to explain it to the constituents throughout the country because, as you well know, they don't believe that our foreign aid program is 1 percent of the budget, and they still all believe it is more than 25…
The International Affairs budget is critical to U.S. economic engagement with the world.
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