Barbara Lee: “I thank very much Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for that very comprehensive statement about our shero, Congresswoman…”

“I thank very much Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee for that very comprehensive statement about our shero, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. Congresswoman Jackson Lee certainly is the epitome of who she was. I am so happy that she raised some of the issues and some of her quotes because she told me personally: Barbara, these rules and policies weren't made for you and I. She said: Don't go along to get along. She said: If you get behind these closed doors in any capacity, you have to fight to change the rules of the game. You have to fight the systemic issues. Don't tinker around the edges. I say that because, once again, when I started, I mentioned the fact that the first Congress was held in 1789, right? Shirley Chisholm was elected in 1968. Our country lost so much during that period because there were no Black women right here in this House of Representatives. We have to always remember the power of the moment when Shirley was elected to Congress and then running for President. Congresswoman Lucy McBath, another trailblazer who has shattered a heck of a lot of glass ceilings, first of all, and who has been bold and determined and persistent in making her community and this country a better place, I am so glad that she is with us tonight. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Georgia (Mrs. McBath). Mrs. McBATH. Madam Speaker, I want to thank so much my esteemed colleague Barbara Lee, who speaks for me tonight, and also Sheila Jackson Lee.…”