On the recordSeptember 27, 2021
George Washington fought for the Nation. Abraham Lincoln tried to unify it. I am absolutely stunned that the United States Senate would not uphold its responsibility to pay America's bills--the bills that we have paid over and over again--by refusing to raise the debt ceiling for some foolish tomfoolery of politics. What is our Nation up to? What are the Republicans up to? But I do want to say as well that I look forward to the budget reconciliation or the Build Back America and the INVEST Act traveling the same pathway because my district needs the extra $20 million that we had established here in the House to be able to help the corridor along Scott Street where Texas Southern University is and the University of Houston, a majority university and a historically Black university. We have to get to work. We have to realize that the importance of connecting neighborhoods that lost the connectiveness because of major highways is crucial-- like I45 North that divided the community; like 288, that is already there, that has divided communities of color. Let's do the right thing and stand for the American people. Politics has no place for deciding whether people have clean water, whether people have roads that work and mobility, and, of course, broadband. Madam Speaker, let's stand with the American people. ____________________
