the House GOP Leadership has gagged Democrats, seniors, and our disabled community by not allowing the chance to first offer and debate a real prescription drug plan. This undermines our democracy, and the true meaning of representative…

Mr. Chairman, tonight, it is almost 10 o'clock, and tonight we are reminding our entire country that women in our country really do need to know that by raising the debt ceiling, though sounding very technical, that the debt limit…

I rise today to oppose the Wamp amendment, which doubles the amount of money an individual can donate to a candidate, known as hard money, from $1000 to $2000. I personally believe that we should decrease this maximum amount by 50% to $500…

As we celebrate and honor our new minority whip, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), I also must really thank her for being such a role model. As a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend to many, a great humanitarian and a…

I rise first to thank the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman Hyde), our ranking member, the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos), the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Leach), and also the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter), for their…

Families who are laid off, they cannot keep waiting for a bill to be passed, hoping that they can extend their rent that is due or hoping that they might pay their mortgage sooner or later or hoping that their children's tuition will hang…

so infrastructure development should be part of any economic stimulus plan that this Congress moves forward to the President's desk. We also need to extend the $300 per person rebate which the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Solis) has…

On December 1, communities across the globe will acknowledge World AIDS Day. The global AIDS pandemic is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our times. Three years ago in my district, we declared a state of emergency on HIV and AIDS in the…

I rise to urge the United States to lift its block on approved loans by the Inter-American Development Bank to Haiti. Haiti is now in the midst of a political impasse that began months after the May, 2000 elections, and has become a…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today really with a very heavy heart, one that is filled with sorrow for the families and the loved ones who were killed and injured this week. Only the most foolish and the most callous would not understand the grief…

However difficult this vote may be, some of us must urge the use of restraint. Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, let`s step back for a moment. Let`s just pause just for a minute and think through the implications…

I am deeply disappointed in how the Republicans have stripped and completely weakened H.R. 2563, the Bipartisan Ganske-Dingell Patient Protection Act of 2001. This Patient Bill of Rights originally included strong patient protections that…

There are simply places on earth that are too fragile, too vulnerable and too special really to drill for oil. We have a real moral obligation to protect these places. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is really one of those places…

I rise to support H. Res. 212, expressing the Sense of Congress on the UN World Conference Against Racism. I want to thank and express my appreciation to my colleague, Congressman Lantos, for authorizing this legislation. I believe this…

Mr. Chairman, first, let me thank the gentlewoman from Ohio for offering this amendment and really allowing us the time to debate this issue and to talk about those that we never have a chance to talk about, those individuals in our…

Mr. Chairman, I rise tonight to express my strong support as a cosponsor of the Waters-Kucinich-Crowley-Lee amendment. This important amendment would restore the ability of developing countries to pass laws that make HIV and AIDS…

I am very troubled by how it has degenerated into a debate about intellectual property rights as compared to saving lives. It is really an unfair debate, because there is no comparison in terms of what we are talking about. Intellectual…

This test, not the personnel, mind you, but this test, is really something to condemn, not to commend. The defense industry and the Pentagon have now passed their half-scaled-down, simplified test. This is really nothing to celebrate. When…

In 1972, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for President. She said, "I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination of the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black…

I want to once again honor and thank Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm for everything that she has done and say that not only should Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm be celebrated and honored during black history or women's history, but she…

And we learned that this disease was a global pandemic. It is disproportionately affecting people of color, Latinos, African Americans. It is devastating the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and it is a ticking time bomb…

let me just say first that the Boy Scouts, I think, reflect the standards, of course, that we hope for in terms of all young men in our country, and so that is why I believe that this amendment would be dangerous in terms of restricting…

I would like to clarify a couple of points that the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) raised. Mr. Chairman, let me first mention the purpose of family planning. Family planning's purpose is to allow information to be distributed to…

Mr. Speaker, today in this Chamber we rise again to protect a woman's right to choose. Yes, once again. This full-scale assault on a woman's right to choose is dangerous and it is wrong. As a woman, I am deeply offended and angry. First…

I rise tonight to speak out against the pollution of our waters, our atmosphere, our wilderness, and our children. Arsenic causes cancer. Global temperatures are climbing every year. These are not wild theories, they are established…