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Mary Gay Scanlon is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district since January 3, 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, she has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and civil rights during her time in office. Scanlon has been an advocate for policies aimed at addressing gun violence and promoting environmental sustainability.
Today we will move forward on three pieces of legislation whose timely consideration is long overdue. We will move to protect Americans' access to health insurance; provide much-needed relief on prescription drug prices; provide Federal…
I would just note that, with respect to H.R. 5, we had regular order. H.R. 5, the Equality Act, went through the Committee on the Judiciary. It had a hearing, and then we also had a markup. This is a new process, apparently, since the last…
On Tuesday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 377, providing for consideration of H.R. 5 under a closed rule, with 90 minutes of debate equally divided and controlled by the Chair and ranking minority member of…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 377 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 377 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…
Yesterday the House passed H.R. 299, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019. This long overdue legislation would finally provide disability benefits to veterans who served in the territorial seas surrounding Vietnam during the…
It is a privilege to testify before you today on a range of issues of concern to my district.
I believe school infrastructure investments should be included in any infrastructure package, including projects such as those in Representative Bobby Scott's Rebuild America's Schools Act.
In Pennsylvania, volunteer fire departments have long played a central role in the life of our towns and boroughs. In recent years, changing demographics and funding issues have seriously impacted the volunteer fire company tradition…
In speaking with experts in my home State of Pennsylvania, they have talked about long-term care as being one of the big drivers in cost
I understand that we have to find a way to address what my colleague, Mr. Raskin, called the injustice of being unable to afford medical care when hit with a misfortune of medical trauma.
I have no question that healthcare is a human right and that no family should have to go bankrupt or worry about putting food on the table due to medical costs.
Your voice, what you do has an important role to play, to make this a safer world.
Just the fact that we hear that White nationalists are fundraising off this hearing today by live streaming it is really, really troubling.
We have made a little bit of progress, but we are far, far from being through.
Today's hearing comes at a time when incidents of hate and violence are increasing at an alarming rate.
I thank the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, and I thank my colleagues for their support. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler).
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 25, line 15, insert ``(a) In General--'' before ``Section 1201''. Page 26, after line 12, insert the…
This is not the first time that I have heard my colleagues misgender trans women as biological males, and I need to point something out. Beyond this term being outright offensive, it shows how disingenuous their concern for the safety of…
On Monday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 281, providing for consideration of H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019, under a structured rule. The rule self-executes a manager's…
For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 281 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 281 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…
The idea that my sister or anyone else could drive across State lines and either gain or lose protections is both heartbreaking and, I think, profoundly un-American.
This is a personal issue for me. It gets personal when someone who you love says, 'This is who I am.'
Last week the House passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act, a sweeping voting rights and government reform package that returns the power of our democracy to the American people. Since this week is Sunshine Week, I want to focus on a…
I would just close by saying, once again, the intent of this is to study and make sure we have the best possible system going forward. I know that Representative Sarbanes and others have studied the existing mechanisms out there to try and…
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