Nita M. Louis, who represented the Congress -based Congress in Witchester County for 32 years, and enthusiastically supported liberal reasons and played a major role in forming legislation to push them, on Saturday at her home in Harrison, New York at eight and eight years old.
Her family declared her death, which she was suffering from spreading breast cancer.
The democracy that ridiculed its voters and political colleagues with a warm image and Jeddah – was 51 years when it was first elected in the House of Representatives in 1988 – Mrs. Louis was also a smart negotiator in the House of Representatives allocation committee, a strong body affecting government spending laws.
She worked in the committee throughout all of her time in Washington and walked to be the first woman to lead her. Nancy Pelosi, Democracy in California, who was the Speaker of the House of Representatives when Mrs. Louis went to the committee, who was closely ally, Mrs. Louis, described Ms. Louis as a “major bright” which is “generous and violent” and seeks to “find a common ground where she can stand to her place” she cannot. “
Actor Henry C. Hyde, a Republic of Illinois, who tangled with Mrs. Louis, is from their colleagues from not misleading it through her gentle behavior.
“She can make you smile while bleeding,” said Mr. Hyde. “We call the choice of perfumed ice.”
Throughout her home, Mrs. Louis sponsored or helped legislate legislation with the aim of progress, or at least protecting him, at the top of the liberal agenda. Women’s rights to abortion and health services, larger federal financing for the programs of the homeless, low -cost housing, and the sponsorship of children and early education.
I voted against a draft law in 1999 that would make a federal crime to take an adult to another state to abort to avoid the law of notifying parents in the girl’s mandate. “The draft law can throw these grandmothers in prison to help their granddaughters,” she said.
Republican presidents, George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, who banned federal aid to organizations all over the world that has provided abortion or information about, describing politics as “a harsh and unprecedented attack on the world’s weakened women.”
She encouraged sexual harassment and in 1991 she was one of a group of members of the House of Representatives who walked alongside the Senate in the Capitol to demand the Judicial Paradise of the Senate to hear accusations of Anita Hill against Clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court nomination session. The Senate later assured him of the seat.
Mrs. Loui was exposed to important issues for the New York region. Besides a large group of Westchester, its boycott also included part of the neighboring Rockland province, Bronx and Queens.
During the negotiations with the Bush administration, Ms. Louis prompted her from falling into the president’s promise of $ 20 billion to help New York City to recover after terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
I pressed the federal organizers to start closing the Indian nuclear power plant in Witchester. “It cannot exceed any amount of energy ability, the risk of being a bad nuclear facility has been managed on our area,” Ms. Louis told the Times in 2008.
During the first Trump administration, Ms. Louis said it would resist his “priority in its place”, including building a wall on the Mexican border with local spending “it is very important for American families.”
Throughout her career in Congress, Mrs. Loui sometimes disturbed her liberal colleagues. She voted early in her mandate for a crime bill that included the death penalty for some crimes, although she opposed the death penalty. The crime reached its climax amid the use of cocaine, and she voted for the bill “because I think it is extremely important to take a strong position in taking the crime from our streets.”
Mrs. Louis, who was a strong supporter of Israel, voted against the 2015 deal that her democratic colleague, President Barack Obama, reached with Iran to reduce the nuclear weapons program. She said, “In my opinion,” there are not enough guarantees to address the risks associated with the agreement, “which several other countries have joined.
After Senator Daniel Patrick Mounehan announced from New York his retirement, Mrs. Louis announced in 1999 that she would not nominate his seat unless Hillary Rodham Clinton was then considering a nomination, she chose not to run. Mrs. Clinton ran and continued to win the seat.
Nita Soo Milnikov was born in Bronx on July 5, 1937, to Jack and Pipatrice Melnikov. Her father was an accountant, and her mother was an active housewife in civil and charitable groups.
After graduating from the Bronx Secondary School of Science, and in 1959, Mount Hollyuk College worked, and Mrs. Louis worked for two years before she married Stephen Louis, a lawyer, she raised two daughters and son in Queens and then in Harrison.
Besides her 64 -year -old husband, she survived their children, Dana Louis Lutway, Jackie Lowe and Douglas Louis, and eight descendants.
From 1975 to 1988, Mrs. Louis worked at the Office of the Foreign Minister in New York on economic development and neighborhood preservation. She was also active with political -heading women groups, and in 1988, she ran to a seat in Witchester in Congress against the current Republicans, Joseph C. Diojanedi.
Dennis Mihil, a business owner, and Hilalton Fich, who represented his father at the time, defeated a region adjacent to Congress.
Then, Ms. Louis carried a campaign on the topic that Mr. Dijawedy was a “encouraging” of the conservative republican administration of President Ronald Reagan and “did not stand on our priorities”, such as providing sufficient money for housing and homeless in Westemster. Mr. Dijwardi said it deform his record. 53 percent of the votes won.
In her re -election races, Mrs. Louis had never had a democratic major opponent, and she won the general elections with large or overwhelming margins. She never had a discount in 2016.
In October 2019, she announced that it would not be nominated for another term, saying that after three decades “she decided that the time is right” to leave the house. She said that in a proposal that the basic challenge that year that year has made it clear in its decision “absurd.” I succeeded in his position Mondayer JonesDemocratic colleague.
She said that her most proud achievement was “breaking the glass ceiling for women” by becoming the first to lead the credits committee.
