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Marilyn Strickland is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Washington's 10th congressional district since January 3, 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party and made history as the first African American woman to represent Washington in Congress. Strickland has focused on issues such as economic development, healthcare, and education during her tenure. Before her election to Congress, she served as the mayor of Tacoma, Washington, and as the CEO of the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce, where she worked to promote business growth and community engagement.
I am struck by the fact that right up there in the balcony during the President's address to this great body... more than 800 precious American lives have been lost in this war. We went into this war based on bad information received from…
I talk to people frequently in my district who suffer from various kinds of arthritis, osteoporosis and other kinds of chronic illnesses and diseases, and some of them are unemployed. We have lost a lot of jobs in Ohio, especially a lot of…
It is quite simple. I was shocked many months ago when the VA put out a memo, and I am paraphrasing, but I am true to the spirit of the memo, which basically said, too many veterans are coming in for services and it is costing us too much…
It is not really passing a benefit. It is a bill to try to keep this government from taking something away from the veterans that they have earned. If they have served their time in the military and they are entitled to receive a pension…
On the rich, that is right. Excuse me, but they are raising taxes or causing taxes to be raised on the working folks of this country.
The history of this administration is anyone who questions is shoved aside. General Shinseki said we would need hundreds of thousands of troops. He was literally ridiculed by the Secretary of Defense and others.
I believe this is an election year scam, and America's senior citizens are going to be so confused. They are not going to know what choices to make, and we are doing it because an election is coming up in November and we want to present to…
They have to provide one drug in every class of medications; but there are many medications that are prescribed for high cholesterol. I can tell Members that I took one drug for high cholesterol for over a year, and it did not control my…
Every 7 days, I am able to make those kinds of changes in the level of discount and in the drugs that are actually covered by that discount card, and yet the senior will be stuck with that particular card for an entire year. So I am locked…
You can start out by getting a discount of 10 percent, and in 7 days that discount can be reduced down to 5 percent. I ask the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) to clarify this, but, for example, I am a senior citizen and I have high…
Once a senior goes through all these cards and finally reaches a decision, and that is going to be difficult to do, once they reach a decision and select a particular card, they are stuck with that card for an entire year. Yet the sponsors…
Something happened on the floor of the House this morning that in my judgment is shameful, shameful, because the record of an American hero who shed his blood, who earned three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star, and a Bronze Medal was referred…
This very night we have young soldiers and middle-age soldiers in Iraq driving around in Humvees that are not armored. It puts them at greater risk. This problem can be solved much more quickly than the Pentagon is willing to solve it. I…
A point well taken because I have had three of my constituents killed in this war. The last one I heard about today, a 21-year-old Marine who had served time in Iraq came home for a brief period of time and was married, was sent back, and…
I think it is a sad and a tragic fact that the President, Secretary Rumsfeld, this administration, sent our troops into battle without providing them with adequate protection. As a result, there are those who probably have lost their lives…
Dear Representative, As the National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans, I write to urge you to oppose and vote against H. Con. Res. 393, the House budget resolution for fiscal year 2005. And then the letter goes on and talks…
The fact is that he should come to Ohio, because Ohio is a suffering State. Ohio has lost approximately 300,000 jobs since the President has been in office. About 160,000 of those jobs have been good paying manufacturing jobs, living wage…
And the fact is that it should not take a year to correct a problem. It should not take months to get body armor to our troops. Do my colleagues know what the Pentagon is saying now? They are saying it will be at least the end of 2005…
I would ask him why he has not requested a sufficient amount of funding to provide these armored vehicles and the kits that can provide armory to the vehicles that are already over there so that our soldiers will not have their arms and…
But if we want a secure country, with stable families and secure communities, we had better change our way, because we are going to lose the American way of life. We are going to lose the middle class, and we are going to lose the ability…
We cannot even find out who served on the Vice President's energy task force, let alone have access to all the intelligence that the President has available.
When the President was interviewed on Sunday, he told the American people that the Congress had the same intelligence available to them as he had available to him. And that was not true. No one told us that there was ambiguity. The…
May I point out something to my friend. The U.N. inspections worked. The U.N. inspectors were in Iraq. They were asking for additional time. It was this government that terminated the inspections right before this war began. And the fact…
Can I ask a question about that, because the heading across the gentleman's chart says ``Licensed Dual Use Exports to Iraq by U.S. Companies, 1985 to 1990.'' When we use the phrase ``dual use,'' does that mean that what has been exported…
Absolutely. If I can just point out something that I think the observer of this Iraq Watch may be asking, why are these Members going so far back in history? Why are they regurgitating facts that happened more than 10 years ago? I think it…
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