Mr. Speaker, in closing, I want to read something that Ronald Reagan said back in 1982 on an issue when they were having similar issues and debates and discussions about defense spending.
He said: “Now, I realize that many well-meaning people deplore the expenditure of huge sums of money for military purposes at a time of economic hardship. Continue reading Rep. Liz Cheney: “Lessons of the past” support increased defense spending
It is like DW Griffith might rise up from his grave to film “Rebirth of a Nation–the Sequel” because FAIR [Federation Against American Immigration Reform] and its allies want to take our immigration policies back to the 1920s when the Klan marched openly in Washington and legal immigration was reduced to almost zero.
—Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D–IL)
Immigrant Heritage Month, House Floor, June 28, 2017
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Mr. Chairman, here we are dealing with some amount of irony with HR 1215. The year 1215 was the year the Magna Carta was signed, something that created the seeds of the American right to jury trial, for Heaven’s sake.
You know, we were pleased to hear Representative Duncan from Tennessee say: “Conservatives believe strongly in the jury system.”
And I do, too, and Americans do, too.
Our Founding Fathers believed in it.
Here in America, where we trust juries to decide life and death for criminal defendants, why wouldn’t we trust them to set a proper and fair dollar amount on a malpractice case?
—Rep. Matt Cartwright (D–PA)
Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017, House Floor, June 28, 2017
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I thought the gentleman from Pennsylvania’s look at HR 1215 was a really deft way to focus on this and speak about the Magna Carta, but there wasn’t anybody back in old England in that time that had any shot at filing a liability claim, let alone receiving a frivolous claim that would make one individual vastly wealthy at the expense of a lot of other folks.
So this is something that has accumulated over the last 502 years since the Magna Carta was signed.
—Rep. Steve King (R–IA)
Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017, House Floor, June 28, 2017
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I will close with this: a brief teaching from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the occasion of another needless tragedy, the police killing of civil rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama State trooper in 1965. In his eulogy, King said: “A State trooper pointed the gun, but he did not act alone. He was murdered by the brutality of every sheriff who practices lawlessness in the name of the law.”
—Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D–MO)
On Philando Castile and the Police Training and Independent Review Act of 2017, House Floor, June 27, 2017
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In 1949, Harry Truman became the first sitting President to propose universal healthcare for all Americans as part of the “Fair Deal.” On March 23, 2010, with the stroke of President Obama’s pen, the American people received this part of the “Fair Deal.”
—Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D–TX)
Wealth Care over Healthcare and Contributions of Caribbean Americans, House Floor, June 26, 2017
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I believe that we need to be working together to try to find genuine solutions and that working together is not just here in this House, in Congress, because the big problem here is that, when we voted in 1996–and I voted for it, for moving from welfare to work–we expected the States to be partners in that effort.—Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D–TX)
Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act, House Floor, June 23, 2017
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There is a laundry list of evidence of Pakistan’s support for terrorist groups, and I think a little more history is in order because this activity by Pakistan has been going on for years and has been below the radar.
In this statement, Rep. Jared references a Washington Post fact-check which can be found here.
A couple of weeks ago, President Trump claimed that projects like the Hoover Dam were built in 5 years because they didn’t have to go through years of permitting and regulation that current infrastructure projects are subjected to.
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In fact, dam planning on the Colorado River began in 1902, yet the Hoover Dam was not completed until 1937. Continue reading Rep. Jaren Huffman: Trump wrong on the Hoover Dam, big projects take time
Ironically, in the 1990s, when the crack cocaine epidemic hit, that was the first time that women started using drugs equal to men. It hadn’t happened before, and so families fell apart.
—Rep. Karen Bass (D–CA)
Reducing Unnecessary Barriers for Relative Foster Parents Act, House Floor, June 20, 2017
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