Honorable Louise M. 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 Legislature from 1976 to 1979, as a Regional Coordinator for then-Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo from 1976 to 1979, and in the New York Assembly from 1982 to 1986. She is a member of the Rules Committee. The following statement is from the House floor debate of October 9, 1998, on the conference report on H.R. 3150, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1998.Last year, more than a million American families went through bankruptcy, leaving millions…
