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.

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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American. by Jackie Speier

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.

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Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

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What a gun does to a person who survives is devastating as well. Whether it`s the surgeries, I had over ten, the years of physical therapy, the emotional and physical scars that you endure and have to come to grips with the fact that you are different.

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If the director of the department doesn't even know what the priv... by Jackie Speier

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

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Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

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It is a true story ... It's one of the stories I occasionally tell because it had some very unfortunate consequences. Afterwards my mother gave me a bowl haircut, so for the school photograph later in that week I looked like Richard the Third.

I had not put my finger on that at the moment, but I was irritated with him and angry with him that he wasn't fully coordinating. And I did say to him, 'Ambassador Sondland, Gordon, I think this is also going to blow up,' and here we are.

I have no interest in advancing the outcome of your inquiry in any particular direction, except toward the truth.

I want to know who else was privy to this information and didn't speak up, we all take an oath of office when we become federal officials, and many of those people in the White House are federal officials.

If you thought the pink hats that women were wearing after the 2016 election -- and the 3 million women who marched around this country -- was a significant move, you just wait until this issue is put in front of the( Supreme Court) justices and if they were, in fact, to overturn Roe v. Wade, that is a picture in which you will see women with pitchforks.

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.

Her quick with and Southern drawl were irresistible. by Jackie Speier

Her quick with and Southern drawl were irresistible.

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This is a culture change that is sweeping the country and Congres... by Jackie Speier

This is a culture change that is sweeping the country and Congress is embracing it.

It would be a Saturday massacre – worse than that, without a doubt there will be an impeachment effort.

The so-called process was clearly drafted to protect the institution rather than the most vulnerable, survivors have to sign a never-ending nondisclosure agreement just to start the complaint process, which is unheard of in the private sector, then continue to work in their office alongside their harasser.

We have a problem with a system that is really there to protect the accused, and to diminish the victim, and to the victims, I’ve talked to who have current cases before the Office of Compliance, it’s a nightmare what they have gone through.

We are escalating in an area I think we should be deescalating in, coupled with what happened in Yemen, what happened in Syria, these are efforts that are made to suggest that we will be engaging in wars in three different countries simultaneously.

I think if we are going to put boots on the ground, we have to authorize the use of force, that should be something debated by the Armed Services Committee and by the full House. We must engage in wars first by evaluating them and Congress taking action, not by allowing the President to act independently, which has been going on now for two decades.

This was all a smokescreen to cancel a public hearing, as far as I'm concerned, that's obstruction of justice.