Honorable Lynn Woolsey
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Woolsey, of the Sixth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 1992. She serves on the Education and Workforce Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and co-chairs the House Progressive Caucus. The following is excerpted from a March 28, 2012, statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The situation in Afghanistan is as bleak as I can remember at any point in the last 10 and a half years that we’ve been at war. In recent months, we’ve seen the burning of the Quran by American…
