It's a significant revelation that further makes the case for cooperation between the President's team and Russia on steering the outcome of the 2016 election.

Jackie Speier

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The services are rushing to declare the F-35 ready for combat, ignoring clear readiness issues in order to show that the program is 'back on track,' but just saying something doesn't make it so. The jets currently can't perform many missions in the real world because of mistakes made throughout the development and procurement process.

I cannot stand by while these provisions are slipped into an otherwise excellent bill through underhanded maneuvers that run contrary to our democratic process.

It was the one time in my time with him when I was unsure whether or not he was going to do the right thing, i sat there thinking, 'What am I going to do if he votes the wrong way?'.

I have a very vivid recollection of that experience, it was the quintessential issue around womanhood.

There's no downside risk. And there's a lot of upside to our daughters and our granddaughters and our great-great-granddaughters who have yet to be born, i'm in the business of optimism.

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.

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It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

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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.

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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.

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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

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We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure... by Jackie Speier

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

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It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

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