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 is the chair of the Rules Committee. The following is from the April 10, 2008, House floor debate on H.R. 5724, the United States–Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act. We in Congress have a fiduciary obligation to ensure thatthe legislation passed through this Chamber represents the best interests ofthose that sent us here, the American people. To outsource that very basiclegislative responsibility is to advocate the duties constitutionallyprescribed to our branch and raises questions as to why we are…
