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Marcy Carolyn Kaptur is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 9th congressional district since 1983. She is the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress. Kaptur has focused on various issues throughout her tenure, including healthcare, economic development, and veterans' affairs. Her commitment to her constituents is evident in her advocacy for policies that support working families and promote job growth in Ohio.
As the gentleman says, it ought to be called not free trade, because it is not free trade. It is not good trade, we know that. It certainly is not positive trade, because all we are yielding are deficits. Maybe we should call it sweat shop…
If I could interject here, the company that the gentlewoman mentioned from Illinois, Galesburg, Maytag. I actually own Maytags. What happened to the workers from the Galesburg plant? Were they transferred? Did they get other jobs? Were…
Mr. Chairman, in closing today, I would just like to ask the Members of this House to think about the communities that they represent, how many farmers markets, how many potential farmers markets, how many roadside stands could be helped…
I would be concluding my remarks and saying with all of our veterans returning home, many of them disabled now, this is an absolutely perfect opportunity to transition them into jobs with adequate training and why should we not be using…
Our amendment essentially is to bring to a level of $23 million the accounts dealing with biofuels, renewable energy in the bill, which equals this year's level of $23 million. We offset that with funds from the Agriculture buildings and…
I would reclaim my time and say to the gentleman that the overall bill does not have enough money. We have to try to put dollars in all the accounts as best we can. I agree with the gentleman there is not enough money in the overall…
This bill obviously has been put together under some of the most trying budget circumstances that we have ever seen. When last year's bill came before us, I said we were trying to stuff a size 10 foot into a shoe that was actually size 7…
Mr. Speaker, the dedication ceremony for the World War II Memorial will mark the beginning of the end of a 20-year journey. It will mark the recognition by this Nation that a grateful Nation does remember the most unselfish generation…
If there are additional staff that will be working directly for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, then why does this bill permit commercial entities to do the review process, which means you are outsourcing or contracting out work that…
It does not matter if U.S. citizens are in those jobs; what matters is who owns the company. And beyond that, why should we be outsourcing anything from the Patent and Trademark Office? I totally oppose this bill. At least I want on the…
I rise to oppose this GOP drug company bonanza that is going to make affordable drug prices impossible for the majority of this Nation's seniors. What a shame.
One of the reasons I think this is important is when we passed the Help America Vote Act, the Bush administration was to have appointed an election commission that would set Federal standards for the development of the technologies that…
Head Start works. It should not be dismantled. The Republican Party should not dismantle Head Start.
Could I, with all due respect, ask the gentleman, is there not in the bill a $90 million earmark for Russia?
If you look at the rest of the world, a country like Canada negotiates price. Even parts of our government, the Department of Veterans Affairs gets a much better price than other seniors pay simply because they do group buying and do…
It will just become an entitlement program for all of these pharmaceutical companies to load up and raid the pockets of seniors across this country, bankrupt them, really.
Very interesting. Maybe some of those Wall Street dollars are going to China rather than inside the United States. That is why it is important to target the investment here and to make sure that it builds wealth in our country, not…
Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, if I could, in my State, we have an extraordinary, we have already exhausted this year's allocation of low-income energy assistance in our State; and we are, what, 3 months into the year, the beginning of the…
I thought we would have extended the unemployment benefits today. I promised my constituents that it would be my top priority when I came back here to Washington; and, quite frankly, I was surprised that that bill was not offered today.
In the State of Ohio it was 24,000 people who fell off their benefits right before the New Year and 1,100 additional people in my own congressional district.
If we look at the foreign policy of the United States over the last 30 years or so, we have had more Americans killed at home and abroad as a result of rising terrorism than in the first 187 years of our country. So we have to begin to ask…
Some of the best forums that we have involved a combination of universities, church leaders, community activists, citizens, just inviting ordinary citizens to learn. Many people feel powerless. They feel this is foreign policy, what can I…
I just wanted to mention during the Persian Gulf War when I served here and Iraq was able to launch some SCUD missiles into Israel, at that time, she could have equipped them with chemical weapons, with biological weapons, but it was not…
I thank the able gentleman from Cleveland, Ohio (Mr. Kucinich), for bringing us together and exhibiting the leadership role that he has, both within the Congress and outside in our country, in attempting to deliver the messages to the…
I express my strong opposition to this pitiful bill that denies senior women across America access to affordable prescription drugs because the Republicans gave all the money away to companies like Enron in tax cuts, and they were not…
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