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January 7, 2015
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In their first vote of the 114th Congress, the majority used their first votes to eliminate the vote in the Committee of the Whole of the residents of your Nation's Capital. That vote on some, but certainly not all, matters had been approved by the federal courts. We have used this vote in three Congresses, but not when Republicans controlled.


April 4, 2013
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Today is April 4th, the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago. It is a sign that we are still living in the King era, that unlike other great figures in our history, his death is noted in addition to his birth in January.


August 27, 2012
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Fresh from the battlefield known as the House of Representatives, where men outnumber women more than six to one, I take some comfort in knowing there are more women than men in this country – and more women who vote. The bunch of men who run the House have not used their majority to tame the banks or the corporations that gave us the Great Recession.


December 28, 2013
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Today, once again, Republicans will indulge their penchant for slowing economic growth, as 1.3 million Americans lose unemployment insurance benefits during this season of brotherly love, with 3.6 million more to follow next year.