Political Quotes

“I want to also applaud the fact that I was able to get an amendment in that increases the funding by $2 million, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for the 1890s land-grant colleges, which are 28 historically Black colleges. It helps those who are in food deserts. And, Mr. Speaker, my district has now some percentage of COVID-19 who are, in essence, underwater, suffering, and food distribution, or the lack of food, is very evident. We have suffered in my region with toxic poisoning from chemicals, and we now have $5 million that has been in the Department of the Interior to highlight the need to support culturally competent Federal, State, and local public health and environmental protection efforts. Mr. Speaker, I want to say to Fifth Ward Texas that they have been heard in the Halls of the United States Congress; they will not any longer be contaminated by creosote and having the numbers of cancers that they have experienced, as I have knocked on doors and had people telling me about their families dying because the railroad's creosote contaminated their backyards and the trees that they grew and the fruit that they grew. How horrendous that we would have that. I am very glad that our amendments were included in this legislation. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has again expired.”