| Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act Of 2012 |
May 18, 2012 |
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Laura Richardson, D-CA
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"Madam Speaker, I rise in strong and unyielding opposition to H.R. 4970, “Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012.” I urge my colleagues to reject this legislation and appeal to the Republican leadership to bring to the floor the Senate version of this bill which passed with a substantial bipartisan majority. Every Democratic Senator and 15 Senate Republicans, including all of the Senate GOP women, voted for the bill."
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| Student Loan Crisis |
May 18, 2012 |
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Joe Courtney, D-CT
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"What’s happened in the last week or so? The Senate Republican leadership led a filibuster to block not only the consideration of a bill to prevent this, but discussion or debate on a bill. In this House, after 3 months of stonewalling, Speaker Boehner brought a bill to the House which cynically took money out of a preventive health care fund for cancer and heart disease screening to pay for a 1-year Band-Aid for Stafford student loans, a measure which the Hartford Courant this morning—the oldest published newspaper in America—described as “just sick.”"
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| Authorization For Use Of Military Force |
May 18, 2012 |
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John Culberson, R-TX
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"We, as a constitutional conservative majority, are committed to restoring the checks and balances in the Constitution, the separation of powers, and to remind people every day until we are back in control of the Senate and we’ve got a Republican President. Once we’ve got a Republican House, Mr. Gohmert, I know we’ll be working arm in arm to pass legislation to return power to the States, to restore individual liberty. As Thomas Jefferson said, if you apply the core principles of the Constitution to any problem, the knot will always untie itself."
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