Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
Dorothy Louise McIntosh Slaughterhas been the United States representative for New York's 25th congressional district since 1987. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 30th District from 1987 to 1993 and the 28th District from 1993 to 2013, is based in Rochester and includes most of surrounding Monroe County. She was the Chairwoman of the House Rules Committee from 2007 until 2011, and has served as ranking minority member of the Committee since 2011,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 August 1929
CountryUnited States of America
The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.
We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.
Proponents of this bill are not just chipping away at the right to choose, they are taking a jackhammer to it.
Tightening security along our vast northern border is one of the most important steps we have taken to defend our homeland since September 11.
We need bipartisan support. We believe we can get it and we will get it.
Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the last three months,
Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.
If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so clouded, consumed and controlled the Republican majority over the past few years,
wants to place the retirement needs of millions of hard-working women and families in the hands of his corporate cronies.
This deal would trigger the airline consolidation we have feared in the wake of a proposed United-US Airways merger. It would be a travesty for the new administration to let this go forward.