| Personal Explanation |
May 11, 2012 |
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Anna Eshoo, D-CA
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"Mr. Speaker. On May 8, 2012, I inadvertently voted ``yes'' on rollcall vote number 210 (Grimm amendment to H.R. 5326) when I meant to vote ``no.''"
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| A Tribute In Honor Of Florence Lariviere |
May 10, 2012 |
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Anna Eshoo, D-CA
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"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor an extraordinary woman, an environmentalist before the term was invented, one who has taught generations the value of wetlands and forests, mountains and oceans, and who learned and taught so many how to protect and preserve these immeasurably valuable resources. A gentle giant of a woman; a quiet roar of a voice; a tiny footstep with a huge footprint . . . Florence LaRiviere has righted many wrongs and prevented many environmental tragedies by the sheer force of her knowledge, determination, advocacy, participation, and persuasive talents."
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| Personal Explanation |
April 24, 2012 |
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Anna Eshoo, D-CA
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"Mr. Speaker, I inadvertently voted ``yes'' on rollcall vote No. 170 (to provide an extension of Federal-aid high, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund) when I meant to vote ``no.''"
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| Commemorating The 97Th Anniversary Of The Armenian Genocide |
April 24, 2012 |
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Anna Eshoo, D-CA
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"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge and commemorate a solemn occasion of deep personal significance. Today marks 97 years since the infamous episode in which the Ottoman Empire began rounding up and murdering Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. By 1923, some 1.5 million Armenian women, children and men were dead from a systematic campaign we now know as the Armenian Genocide, or Great Crime. Their lives ended in the most brutal ways imaginable, subjected to death marches, burnings, rape and forced starvation. Some 500,000 Armenians who did survive--my own grandparents among them--were forced into exile."
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