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I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Domestic Violence
Economic
Economic Security
Fighting
Domestic
Provide
Victims
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Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Home
Aspect
Children
Growing Up
Affect
Life Experience Home
Terrifying
Traumatic
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People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Careers
People
Political
Subtle
Surprise
For Example
Political Career
Recipe
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Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Communicate
Fire
Police
Radio
Talking
Departments
Emergency
Essential
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We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Decisions We Make
Definite
Everyday
People
Connection
Everyday Lives
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With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Alcohol
Answers
Drinking
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Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Children
Ethnic Background
Head Start
Income
Race
Surfing
Background
Designed
Ensure
Ethnic
Regardless
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With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Able
Alcohol
Compelling
Crisis
Drinking
Industry
Information
Why
Prevent
Question
Underage
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Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Health
Blood
Intervention
Newborn
Public Health
Screening
Simple
Symptoms
Tests
Begin
Genetic
Identify
Illnesses
Involves
Life-Threatening
Test
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Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Age
Children
Domestic Violence
Female
Half
Lifetime
Nearly
Domestic
Households
Victims
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Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Civil Liberties
Fighting
Giving Up
Names
Protect
Terrorism
Civil
Compromised
Liberties
Wary
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To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Doctors
Domestic Violence
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During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Consideration
Delivery
Head Start
Target
Workforce
Committee
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
Services
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I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Children
Dramatic
Head Start
Impact
Intervention
Positive Impact
Program
Supporter
Witness
Years
District
Congressional
Services
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When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Approved
Dependent
Infrastructure
National Economy
Port
Progress
Safe
Shipping
Clearly
Commercial
Protecting
Toward
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Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Health
Complacent
Crisis
Drinking
Light
Priorities
Public Health
Shadow
Alarming
Bright
Mr
Nation
Public
Longer
Speaker
Underage
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This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Abuse
Children
Country
Growing Up
October
Peaceful
Communities
Domestic
Eliminate
Ensure
Grow Up
Homes
Renew
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The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Technology
Adequate
Citizens
Enforcement
Giving
Interference
Law
Law Enforcement
Lessons
Protect
Resources
September
Allow
Liberties
Technologies
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The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Giving Up
Homemaker
Identity
Traditional
Excel
Professionals
Tendency
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Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Dream
American Dream
Barriers
Generations
Hardship
Pacific
Pursuit
Racism
Theme
Years
Overcome
Speaks
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The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments operating under SB 1070, the Department is implicitly condoning the shameful tactics authorized by the new law.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Arizona
Continuing
Department
Federal Government
Shameful
State Government
Unconstitutional
Accessory
Actions
Authorized
Implicitly
Operating
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If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.
Lucille Roybal-Allard / U.s. Representative
Behalf
Political Life
Sidelines
Life Family Myself
Dealing
Intimidate
Member
Spectator
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