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 as a member of 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 House Rules Committee. The following is from the September 15, 2005, House floor debate on H.Res. 437, to establish the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina.On Tuesday, President Bush said that he took responsibility for the recent failure of…
