Honorable Louise Slaughter
United States Representative, New York, Democrat
Representative Slaughter, of the twenty-eighth District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986. She served in the Monroe County (New York) Legislature from 1976 to 1979 and in the New York Assembly from 1982 to 1986. She is the Ranking Minority Member of the Rules Committee. The following is from the July 27, 2017, House floor debate on H.R. 3219, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2018. Every one of us wants to improve our security, but this bill, I am afraid, is a little more than smoke and mirrors. The increase…
