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FORMULA ACT
Suzan K. DelBene (Democrat, WA) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I rise today to address the ongoing baby formula crisis and urge my colleagues to support the Formula Act. prgtoken I raised two kids, and I know the first months of parenthood are tiring and stressful, even in the best of situations. prgtoken Now, families across the country are in a dire position as they try to find the formula that they need to feed their babies. prgtoken Around the country, 74 percent of formula shelves are empty. In my home State of Washington, we are one of 10 States where over 90 percent of shelves are empty. prgtoken Severely stretched supply chains and a major formula plant going offline have left shelves barren. Unreliable formula supply is a critical problem for families. Parents are driving hours to multiple different stores just to find any formula, and that is time that parents don't have. prgtoken Changing formulas constantly is also disruptive to babies. It causes digestive problems and excessive crying. prgtoken Jessie, a mom in my district, has been struggling to find formula for her infant daughter, Amara. She is not one to ask for help, but when she was running low on her last can, Jessie joined a local social media group where other parents would post where they saw formula on shelves, and she downloaded an app that would notify her when more cans were available. Jessie was able to find formula, but she realizes that she is one of the lucky parents who had the means, the time, and the network to support Amara. prgtoken By removing tariffs on foreign formula that meets FDA's safety standards, the Formula Act will make it easier and more affordable for parents to feed their babies so fewer are finding themselves in this difficult situation. This is a commonsense solution, so let's make it happen.
ENSURING ACCESS TO ABORTION ACT OF 2022
Jackie Speier (Democrat, CA) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , it gets more painful every single day. When you think about it, you have an AG in Indiana who has smeared a healthcare professional in that State who did exactly what she was supposed to do in providing an abortion to a 10-year-old. But he was going to bring charges against her. prgtoken We have a colleague on the other side of the aisle who is now putting down $20 bills as if we are going to race over there to get that $20 bill to answer his question. prgtoken I mean, what are we doing here? Have we lost it? prgtoken This bill simply codifies what is interpreted in the Constitution in the Fifth Amendment. prgtoken Now, we have a Justice, Kavanaugh, who was asked the question: May a State bar a resident of the State from traveling to another State? The answer is no. But, interestingly enough, the right to travel, those words, are not in the Fifth Amendment. prgtoken So, if we have an originalist Court, we do have to pass this bill, which has been introduced by Congresswomen Fletcher and Strickland and other Members, because women should be able to travel. Right now, we cannot even guarantee that to a woman who wants to get an abortion. prgtoken I have had an abortion. I have had miscarriages. I have had to live with a dead fetus in my body. I know what that experience is like. Not everyone over there does. I would say most Members over there don't. prgtoken But it is my personal right. It is every woman's personal right.
WOMEN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT OF 2022
Tony Cárdenas (Democrat, CA) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I rise today in support of the Women's Health Protection Act and lend my voice to the chorus of calls across the country for urgent action on abortion rights. prgtoken When I first heard the news of the Dobbs decision, I felt as if I were thrown into another country--a country without our Constitution. prgtoken How is it that such a fundamental right to our autonomy over one's body, over one's life, and over one's future can be stripped away so callously? prgtoken We are talking about far-right Justices telling women that they cannot get the care that they need and telling doctors that they cannot treat their patients to the best of their ability. Yes, these five Justices with no medical expertise stole the fundamental freedom of controlling the health of one's own body and opened the floodgates to criminalize doctors for doing their job. prgtoken Make no mistake, Madam : this is a stain on our healthcare system and a flat-out assault on health equity, and it is a self- inflicted wound. prgtoken This resolution will leave women--especially women of color and low- income women, including White women--in the lurch. So in the absence of any respect or compassion for reproductive health in this country, we, as a body, must show our leadership. It is incumbent upon us elected officials to ensure that the basic right is restored and finally written into law. prgtoken The Women's Health Protection Act will do that. It would restore 50 years of precedent and right a deeply invasive wrong. History has its eyes on us. prgtoken Madam , I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''
ENSURING ACCESS TO ABORTION ACT OF 2022
Scott H. Peters (Democrat, CA) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I rise today to support the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act. prgtoken After the Supreme Court eliminated the Federal right to abortion, only 20 States continue to protect a woman's right to choose. Even before Roe fell, States across the country were working to pass laws banning abortion even in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is at stake. That is not pro-family, and that is not pro- life. That is barbaric. prgtoken efforts to criminalize abortion will pit neighbors against neighbors, punish women for exercising their bodily autonomy, and imprison doctors who took an oath to protect their patients. That is happening right here in what is supposed to be the freest country in the world. That is why I am standing here, today, to protect a woman's right to travel in search of legal healthcare. prgtoken Madam , if the Supreme Court won't protect Americans, then we in Congress must do everything in our power to stand up for our basic freedoms. That starts with this bill, and I urge my colleagues to pass it.
WOMEN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT OF 2022
Diana DeGette (Democrat, CO) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , the horror of a 10-year-old girl, the victim of rape, re-victimized when her parents were forced to take her out of State because of Ohio's abortion law. prgtoken A woman who was having a miscarriage, whose doctor refused to give her the medical procedure she needed because of fear of being prosecuted. prgtoken A woman trying to get long-acting birth control, whose pharmacist refused to prescribe the necessary medication for the procedure. prgtoken The chaos in the wake of the terrible Dobbs decision is only going to get worse from here. prgtoken The Supreme Court and the Party have declared a war on Americans' healthcare rights. Every single American has the right and the freedom to make the healthcare decisions that they need, including abortion. prgtoken We passed this bill last September. We passed it in September after the first decision in the Supreme Court. We are going to pass this bill today in the U.S. House of Representatives. We are going to pass this bill, which codifies Roe v. Wade, every time we need to, to protect Americans' rights to healthcare and to protect everybody's equality.
WOMEN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT OF 2022
Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat, TX) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I thank all of the leaders who recognize that reproductive freedom is a constitutional right. prgtoken I rise today, and I stand in the name of a 10-year-old rape victim who was denied an abortion and had to run to another State. prgtoken I stand in the name of the young woman who induced an abortion and became criminalized. prgtoken I stand in the name of rape victims. prgtoken I stand in the name of incest victims. prgtoken I stand for reproductive freedom. prgtoken And I stand in the name of the Constitution and the Ninth Amendment and the right of women with their faith leaders, their families, their extended knowledge, to be able to make their own decision about reproductive freedom. prgtoken I stand for the Women's Health Protection Act because it prohibits a State, local, or Tribal Government from telling abortion providers that they should perform medically unnecessary procedures like ultrasounds and provide patients with medically inaccurate information. This would be prohibited by this particular legislation and, as well, to ensure that they would comply with credentialing or other conditions that do not apply to providers who offer medically comparable services. prgtoken I stand in order for the Women's Health Protection Act to cover this United States and to ensure that the Constitution and Ninth Amendment prevails. prgtoken I stand because the Supreme Court Justices who swore that they believe in precedent for 50 years of Roe v. Wade did, under oath, misrepresent to those who they were speaking to that they would adhere to stare decisis and the precedent. prgtoken I stand because in Texas, the bounty hunters are seeking to criminalize and arrest persons. I stand for H.R. 5710 that will criminalize that activity. prgtoken Madam , I am proud to rise in strong support of H.R. 8296, the Women's Health Protection Act of 2022. prgtoken H.R. 8296, the ``Women's Health Protection Act of 2022'' of which I have been a long-time supporter, would prohibit certain government restrictions on access to abortion. prgtoken The bill would ensure physicians' ability to prescribe certain drugs, offer abortion services via telemedicine, and provide immediate abortion services when the mother's health is at risk. prgtoken Furthermore, the ``Women's Health Protection Act of 2022'' would put an end to the hurdles some states have placed in the way of women accessing abortion care. prgtoken This bill would prohibit state, local, or tribal governments from requiring abortion providers to: prgtoken Perform medically unnecessary procedures like ultrasounds; prgtoken Provide patients with medically inaccurate information or; prgtoken Comply with credentialing or other conditions that do not apply to providers who offer medically comparable services. prgtoken It would also safeguard all abortions before fetal viability, and after fetal viability when a physician determines the continuation of pregnancy puts the mother's life at risk. <
ENSURING ACCESS TO ABORTION ACT OF 2022
Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, CA) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for his extraordinary leadership on this subject not only as we face the Court decision but, over time, his chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee in terms of health in general, women's health in particular, reproductive health as we gather today. I thank members of the committee, and I thank the authors of this legislation as I proceed. prgtoken I rise on this momentous day as our pro-choice, pro-women ic majority proudly takes further action to defend the fundamental right of health freedom. prgtoken As extremist s continue their assault on reproductive rights, our Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act will ensure that the fundamental right to travel and obtain needed healthcare remains in the hands of the American people. prgtoken Our Women's Health Protection Act will once again make the protections of Roe v. Wade the law of the land. prgtoken Let us salute the patriotic and persistent leadership not only of our distinguished chairman, Mr. Pallone, but also Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher and Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland, who are leading the charge on the right-to-travel bill, working with Jamie Raskin, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee and who has been part of this. prgtoken I also salute Congresswoman Judy Chu, who will have now twice secured House passage of the Women's Health Protection Act; Pro-Choice Caucus co-chairs Diana DeGette and Barbara Lee; and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone. prgtoken Three weeks ago, the Party finally achieved its dark, dangerous, long-held goal to rip away a woman's freedom over her most fundamental decisions about her body, her health, and her life. prgtoken Since the -captured Supreme Court eviscerated Roe v. Wade, at least nine -controlled States have already banned abortion. More have enacted draconian restrictions so that exercising this fundamental right is practically impossible. prgtoken In doing so, these extreme measures have forced countless women to seek reproductive care in nearby States. But now, lawmakers across the country are advancing proposals to block women from crossing State lines to get the care they need and punish those who, in their words, ``aid or abet'' them. prgtoken Is this the United States of America, where s in these States can say to women, ``You cannot cross State lines for your own good health?'' prgtoken This has been especially devastating for women who do not have the means to access care, often women of color and women from low-income communities. prgtoken This reality is sickening. It is despicable. It demands action. prgtoken With our Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, we will prevent s from punishing women for exercising their right to travel and receive the healthcare they need, and it will protect healthcare providers who deliver reprod
ENSURING ACCESS TO ABORTION ACT OF 2022
Barbara Lee (Democrat, CA) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I rise in strong support of H.R. 8297. prgtoken Yes, as co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, along with my colleague, Congresswoman Diana DeGette, I thank our colleagues, Representatives Fletcher, Strickland, and Raskin, for introducing this very important bill, and also Chairman Pallone and Pelosi for bringing it to the floor. prgtoken Everyone deserves the freedom to make personal decisions about their health, their bodies, their futures, as well as the right to travel. Yet, the Supreme Court's decision has stripped this fundamental right to reproductive freedom from millions of people in this country. prgtoken Now, I remember the days before Roe, and we aren't going back. prgtoken Not only are some States moving to enact extreme abortion bans, but some anti-abortion State legislators are working to prohibit people from traveling across State lines to access care and are targeting people who assist those in need. prgtoken What in the world is happening to our democracy? prgtoken First of all, you are trying to take away our own healthcare decisions, the ability to make our reproductive healthcare decisions. You are trying to criminalize people for making their own reproductive healthcare decisions. prgtoken You are trying to set up an environment for people to spy on each other when they are trying to exercise their reproductive healthcare decisions and freedoms. prgtoken You are trying to take away people's right to travel. prgtoken What in the world is this? Is this America? prgtoken You all talk about other countries. I don't even recognize what you are trying to do in this country. prgtoken Please, just know that this is a slippery slope. They come for me today; they are coming for you tomorrow. prgtoken Madam , I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' and to reaffirm the right to travel and seek care, not further erode our reproductive freedoms and personal liberties.
WOMEN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT OF 2022
Alma S. Adams (Democrat, NC) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his extraordinary support. prgtoken Madam , I rise today because I am pretty damn angry. You know the Supreme Court's decision overturning the right to abortion care is fundamentally wrong. The Supreme Court green-lit forced pregnancy, taking away the right to bodily autonomy for women. prgtoken Abortion is still healthcare. People will still need to access it, and that is why I am supporting the Women's Health Protection Act. prgtoken In the wake of the Dobbs decision, we have a State-by-State patchwork that denies women equal protection under the law. prgtoken While abortion is still legal in my home State of North Carolina, the State of Texas is suing the government to compel women to carry pregnancies to term, even if it kills the mother. prgtoken The attorney general of Indiana wants to force rape victims--even 10- year-old girls--to carry pregnancies to term. prgtoken We have a responsibility to stop this draconian overreach by State governments, and we have got to make reproductive freedom--reproductive freedom--the law of the land.
ENSURING ACCESS TO ABORTION ACT OF 2022
Lizzie Fletcher (Democrat, TX) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , in my beloved home State of Texas, we are in a crisis, a healthcare crisis, a humanitarian crisis. prgtoken Since last September, access to abortion has been severely limited. Since last month, it has been eliminated. prgtoken In response, Texans who can do so have been traveling out of State to obtain abortion care, first to Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico. As some of these States have banned abortion, they are now traveling even farther. prgtoken Now, in response to this exercise of their constitutional right to travel between the States, lawmakers in Texas and in other States across the country are threatening to take away that right, too. prgtoken This is not hypothetical, it is not hyperbole, and it is nothing like what we just heard from the minority in response to this bill. prgtoken Just last week, a group of lawmakers in Texas publicized a letter that they sent to at least one law firm in Texas threatening the firm and each of its partners with felony criminal prosecution and disbarment because of the firm's policy to reimburse employees for travel costs associated with out-of-State travel for abortion care. prgtoken It is not just Texas. Lawmakers in Missouri have already considered legislation to prohibit its residents from traveling outside of the State for abortion care to States where it is legal, and groups are working on model legislation to introduce in States across the country as we speak. prgtoken Not only do these threats fail to reflect the will of the majority of people in this country who favor a legislative framework that takes into account the complex circumstances of pregnancy that we have discussed this morning, these threats fail to reflect the fundamental rights guaranteed in our Constitution. prgtoken Congress has the authority and the responsibility to protect people from these unconstitutional efforts to prevent, restrict, impede, or otherwise punish a person traveling to another State to obtain a legal abortion and to protect those providers and others who are helping them. prgtoken This morning, we are doing exactly that in passing the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act. prgtoken I thank the chairman, the , original cosponsors Representative Strickland and Representative Raskin, and all of our cosponsors for, once again, responding with urgency to the cruel efforts to deprive my fellow Texans and our fellow Americans of their constitutional right to travel by bringing this bill to the floor today, and I urge everyone in this body to vote ``yes.''
WOMEN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT OF 2022
Angie Craig (Democrat, MN) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , exactly 3 weeks ago, five Justices on an activist, extremist Supreme Court handed down a decision that upended nearly 50 years of precedent and rolled back fundamental rights for millions of Americans. prgtoken In the weeks since, I have watched in horror as State after State has triggered laws that now prevent a woman or a girl from accessing an abortion even in the case of rape and incest. These events have been shocking to Americans, not only for millions of women across the country but for the country as a whole. prgtoken You call yourselves conservative. We are talking about 50 years of precedent in our Nation. prgtoken Because no Government has a place interfering in the decisions between a woman and her doctor, criminalizing abortion, or restricting women's healthcare options. prgtoken This is not a controversial position to the American people. A strong majority of my constituents believe that the right to an abortion should be protected by law. This is a freedom and a privacy issue, and the government--not politicians in this room and not politicians in any State in our Nation--should not have any part in this conversation at all. This is a very personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, and her faith. prgtoken Madam , I encourage all of my colleagues to join me in voting ``yes'' to protect Roe today.
2022 NATIONAL CONVENTION OF LAMBDA THETA PHI IN TAMPA, FLORIDA
Charlie Crist (Democrat, FL) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I rise today to recognize and extend my congratulations to Lambda Theta Phi on their 2022 National Convention, and I commend them on their decision to host this year's convention in the city of Tampa, which is just across the Bay from my home district of Pinellas County in the great state of Florida. prgtoken Since its founding in 1975, Lambda Theta Phi has undertaken many laudable initiatives, such as fundraising for victims of natural disasters and helping those struggling with homelessness get back on their feet. In doing so, they have demonstrated their enduring commitment to the lofty ideals laid out by the Fraternal Fathers, Dr. Cayetano Socarras and Dr. Jose Quiles, including academic excellence, service, leadership, and Latino unity. prgtoken As a lifelong Florida resident, former Governor, and proud Representative of Florida's 13th Congressional District, I have seen the power of these ideals in action. From their close partnership with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, to the dozens of Lambda Theta Phi brothers in Washington, Tallahassee, and across Florida working tirelessly for a better future, Lambda Theta Phi brothers truly represent the best of our communities. prgtoken It is with great pleasure that I congratulate this historic organization on their continued national engagement through this convention, and extend my best wishes to them in all their future endeavors. Finally, I echo the chant that has united Latino brothers in fraternity and a shared mission for almost 50 years--Lambda Theta Phi, Lambda 'till the day we die.
WOMEN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT OF 2022
Ann M. Kuster (Democrat, NH) \u2014 2022-7-15

. Madam , I rise today in support of the Women's Health Protection Act and to speak for the generation of women who have lost their freedom to make healthcare decisions for themselves. The government has no place inserting itself into people's personal healthcare decisions. prgtoken I never expected to be on the floor of the House talking about miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, or fertility treatments, but here we are. prgtoken For many, pregnancy is not an easy path. One in eight pregnancies end in miscarriage, and 1 in 50 women experience ectopic pregnancies--an outcome that always leads to pregnancy loss and poses serious risk of life to the mother. prgtoken For countless others, getting pregnant requires costly, exhausting, and complex procedures such as IVF. prgtoken Regardless of the circumstances, reproductive health is private. prgtoken Pregnancy can be unpredictable. The government has no place in deciding what care patients can receive and doctors can administer. Like all healthcare, decisions surrounding reproductive health should be between a patient and their doctor. prgtoken As an adoption attorney, I worked with hundreds of birth mothers making the most personal, consequential decisions of their lives, and not one of those women looked to the government to make that decision for them. prgtoken I support the Women's Health Protection Act, and I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''