Words matter. These are the best Jackie Speier Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it’s in the national interest.
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don’t have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
Privacy isn’t negotiable. It’s the right of every American.
Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women’s earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
There is no longer any anonymity on the Web – unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers’ expense.
It’s more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
We must start to treat climate change as what it is – a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all.
I don’t know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women’s reproductive health.
