Providing for futher consideration of Women's Public Health and Safety Act

Floor Speech

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Ms. DelBENE. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. Just 10 days ago the
House took a vote to attack women's health. At that time, I said it
felt like deja vu.

Now I am starting to wonder if this is the only issue that my
colleagues care about.

Have we taken a vote to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank? No.
Have we taken a vote to extend the Land and Water Conservation Fund?
No.

Have we taken a single vote this year to fix our broken immigration
system? No.

Yet, somehow we found time to take vote after vote restricting
women's access to care. It is reprehensible.

The bill we are considering today is one of the worst yet. It is a
dangerous and unprecedented assault on women and their healthcare
providers, and it does nothing to address the real issues that
Americans are facing.

Mr. Speaker, voters didn't send us here to intimidate their doctors
and interfere in their private medical decisions.

It is time for Congress to stop wasting time and get to work. I urge
my colleagues to oppose this rule and the underlying bill.

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