Elizabeth Furse

I rise to address the need for a peaceful resolution of the situation in Cyprus. The 18 percent Turkish-Cypriot and over 80 percent Greek-Cypriot population of Cyprus lived in harmony on Cyprus for centuries. Twenty-two years ago this…

women serving the Federal Government deserve the same civil rights as all American women, but with this bill the extreme antichoice Members of Congress want to deny the more than 1 million women the right to comprehensive insurance…

Today, Mr. Speaker, we have a chance to do something that the people of this country have been asking us to do for almost a year. We have a chance to fix the infamous lawless logging rider. We will be offering a bipartisan amendment which…

I am here today to participate in a bipartisan amendment which will fix the biggest environmental mistake of the 104th Congress. That mistake is the so-called emergency salvage timber program, passed as a rider last July, which suspended…

reclaiming my time, those are thousands of small, small businesses who have this. They are willing to go to the length of protecting the marbled murrelet, but they see no reason why one or two or maybe even ten companies should be relieved…

it would help the Department of Defense transportation system operate more efficiently. It would be just directly at that efficiency of operation for U.S. Transcom.

It seems to me we might be able to put that money to better use in doing some other research. Perhaps if we applied more money to research in these areas there would be greater gains. But we have had this animal predator control program…

life history is important. The history of a Member of Congress can give insight into a problem in our society. This is just such an occasion. I think I can safely say that my work history has been very similar to that of the majority of…

My amendment, Mr. Chairman, which is endorsed by Citizens Against Government Waste, reduces the Army military construction account by $17.4 million. That $17.4 million is the cost of renovating two barracks in Mannheim, Germany. There are…

I, too, am extraordinarily excited and happy that we are being joined by a great new Member from Oregon. I think I would just like to say that to me the gentleman from Oregon, Earl Blumenauer, has the perfect background for being a Member…

I rise today in support of raising the minimum wage, and helping reward the millions of Americans who work hard everyday. It has been 5 years since Congress last increased the minimum wage--5 years with less purchase power to pay for…

I support the coalition budget because it is fiscally conservative and socially responsible. It is a common sense approach that both Democrats and Republicans can support. We need a balanced budget plan that emphasizes security in our…

for 3 years I have joined my distinguished colleague from Massachusetts in sponsoring this amendment to require greater burdensharing of our allies. Now that the cold war is over, we can no longer afford to bear the full cost of our…

we must not deny our servicewomen their legal rights when they leave the U.S. soil. The current ban on abortions in military hospitals makes military women second class citizens. Now, whether we like it or not, abortion is legal. Roe…

I have brought here a chart that shows what we do with the money that the Congress has discretion over and over half the red part is Pentagon spending. The other part is everything else, education, income security, health, environment. The…

Mr. Speaker, I was very interested to hear people talk about how this was going to be a tax increase. We are some of the few people who actually paid by taxes from the American people, and if we raise the minimum wage to $5.15, the minimum…

just prior to the April recess, my colleague from Ohio, Ms. Kaptur, took to the House floor and criticized the operations of Nike, an important Oregon-based company headquartered in my district. I fundamentally disagree with her assessment…

last July it was about 10:30 at night, and this House passed the notorious timber salvage rider. That rider was slipped onto a bill that actually gave funding to the Oklahoma bombing victims. We knew at the time, some of us, that it was a…

I guess I am here to warn the American people about what I call 1-day environmentalism. Interest in Earth Day really has to be continued and kept in people's minds throughout the year. It is a yearlong problem to keep protecting the…

Mr. Speaker I rise because of concerns I have to H.R. 3121, amending the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act. This bill moves us in the wrong direction. It unnecessarily costs the taxpayers more money and it moves us…

I rise today against this closed rule. This is just another example of this 2-year experiment, which we have to call the Republican control of Congress. I think in order to evaluate this experiment, we need certain things. We need to look…

People in my district have suffered greatly as a result of the flooding in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past few weeks, my staff and I have spent days and nights throughout my district, working with citizens and local community groups…

I think that the people who are not able to pay their rent this month or maybe the ones who are not going to make their mortgage payments are going to remember this time. As my colleagues know, a lot of speakers have talked from this side…

not only was I in that committee room, I am a member of this committee and we, the Democrats on that committee, have asked over and over and over again for hearings on the Medicare bill because we are very concerned that there is stuff in…

this bill we are considering today--to provide disabled veterans the same cost-of-living-adjustment as we give Social Security recipients--represents one of the most important contracts we must honor. That contract is the one we have with…