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Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud Capps (born January 10, 1938) is an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for California's 24th congressional district from 1998 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 22nd District from 1998 to 2003 and the 23rd from 2003 to 2013, includes all of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and a portion of Ventura County.

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

Direction, Energy, New Directions, Policy, Time

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.

Adopt, Children, Diet, Encouragement, School

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.

Cafeteria, Children, Ride, School, Schools

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.

1970S, America, Children, Double Standard, Today

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.

Addition, Investigate, Justice, President, Trade, Years

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

Dirtiest, Energy, Reality, Way

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

Age, Conditions, Health, Individual, May

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.

Creativity, Energy, Full, Needs, Resource, Scale

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

America, Energy, Show, Solve, Years

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.

Communication, Concerned, Health, Nurse, Nurses, Nursing

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

Acknowledge, Cell, Cells, Refusal, Research, Stem

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

Aids, Climate, Energy, Pandemic, Pandemics, Problem

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

Country, Energy, Pretty, Way, World

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

Hamas, Let, Mistake, Organization, Ruthless

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.

Adopt, Challenges, Effort, Energy, Expand, Policies

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Electronic, Example, Importance, Know, Nurse, Records

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Causes, Death, Domestic Violence, Homicide, Pregnant, Pregnant Women

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.

Familiar, May, Nation, Osteoporosis, Prevention, Take