Lois Capps Quotes

• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  Lois Capps

  Topics in Experience, Health

  Tags in Fitness, Diet, Food

• With 3 percent of the world’s resources and 25 percent of the world’s demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

  Lois Capps

• What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

  Lois Capps

• We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

  Lois Capps

• Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

  Lois Capps

• The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

  Lois Capps

• Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

  Lois Capps

• Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

  Lois Capps

• Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

  Lois Capps

• National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

  Lois Capps

• Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation’s children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

  Lois Capps

• Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

  Lois Capps

• It is time for a New Direction for our nation’s energy policies.

  Lois Capps

• In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.

  Lois Capps

• In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

  Lois Capps

• In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

  Lois Capps

• I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

  Lois Capps

• I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone’s awareness of the need to improve public health.

  Lois Capps

• I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel’s security or advances U.S. national interests.

  Lois Capps

• I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

  Lois Capps

Lois Capps (24)

Birth:	10th January, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Nurse, Politician, Professor, Representative

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