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
Louise Slaughter quotes about
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,
I think the fact they they're just practically denuding the northeast preys on a lot of minds and we also have the added thing, we're on the border.
President Bush is doing everything in his power to restrict and eventually eliminate a women's constitutionally protected right to abortion.
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.
I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
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.
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase drug industry profits by $139 billion over the next eight years. Glaxo-SmithKline's second-quarter net income already jumped 14 percent, and other leading drug companies also have benefited.
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,