Jackie Speier
Jackie Speier
Karen Lorraine Jacqueline "Jackie" Speieris the U.S. Representative for California's 14th congressional district, serving in Congress since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 12th District from 2008 to 2013, includes the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and the southwest quarter of San Francisco. She represents much of the territory that had been represented by her political mentor, Leo Ryan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 May 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
The truth of the matter is they are getting paid to do (state) jobs that the public perceives they're committed to 24/7. They accepted the positions knowing what the parameters are.
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.
When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.
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.
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.
To me, this kind of malfeasance or nonfeasance is precisely what the public cannot tolerate.
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.
This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt.
Labor has only as much influence as the Chamber of Commerce.
I think it?s one of the most under-utilized constitutional offices, ... I want to change that. I want to turn that office into the guardian of higher education.
I think this is the best way to deter high-risk offenders -- including sexual predators -- from committing new crimes because we will know where they are if it happens.
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.