Press Releases

"...This has an impact right at the kitchen table of the American people. So we have to think very seriously about what we are doing here, but whatever we do, let’s just have it be on the level, Mr. Speaker, let’s have it be on the level. This is a bill that reinforces the sequester, if it didn’t, it wouldn’t be in the bill."

“I’ll just tell you one story, Mr. Speaker. When I was visiting His Holiness in India, we were greeting people coming across the mountains from Tibet, and they were describing horrible stories of what was happening to them there. So, when we had lunch with the other Lamas who had come from all over, I said: ‘Well, we really have to speak out and have to point out what the Chinese are doing there.’ And when His Holiness started to speak next, he said: ‘Nancy, we must rid you of your negative attitude.’"

"This week the number of Americans cut off from emergency unemployment insurance crested two million people – two million men and women who work hard, play by the rules, and lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Two million people cut off from unemployment benefits. Among those two million were close to 200,000 of our veterans who put their lives on the line to serve our country. We owe them a future and an economy worthy of their sacrifice. More than 150 Members have signed a letter asking Speaker Boehner to allow a vote, just give us a vote on UI in the name of our veterans struggling to find work."

“No person who works full time should have to raise their family in poverty. Raising the minimum wage is essential to the economic security of families and women – who make up a majority of minimum wage workers; as the President reiterated this afternoon, we know that when women succeed, America succeeds. While Republicans continue to block this critical pay raise for millions of hard working American families, Democrats will continue to push our discharge petition to force a vote, and keep up the pressure to raise the wage.”

“Four years ago, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to make health care a right, not a privilege, for all Americans. In the years since, Republicans have voted 50 times to turn back the clock – and Americans have had enough. It’s time for Republicans to end their obsession with upending health reform and work with Democrats to strengthen it.”

“While Republicans feverishly work to reward their special interest friends with tax breaks, and maximize the pain of hard working Americans, Democrats will continue to advance an opportunity agenda that empowers all Americans to realize a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. It is time for Republicans to end their callous and shortsighted obstruction, and join Democrats to pass a budget that creates jobs, expands opportunity, reduces the deficit, and invests in the future.”

"Our strategic and mutually beneficial – to both our nations – partnership will only grow stronger as we uphold our promises of cooperation for Israel’s security: preserve and advance Israel’s qualitative military edge; maintain our drive for a comprehensive lasting peace agreement; and, as was your focus Mr. Prime Minister, prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, a threat not only to Israel and the region but to the United States and the world at large. You said the threat should be contained, can be contained – it must be contained."

“As we celebrate Women’s History Month, let us renew our commitment to ensuring that generations of women – our daughters and granddaughters – will enjoy the equal rights, equal treatment, and equal opportunities that they deserve. Let us reaffirm an enduring truth that is woven into the very fabric of our history and will define our future: when women succeed, America succeeds.”