Sheila Jackson Lee: “I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for his leadership, and the manager. Many of us, Mr. Speaker, have come to the…”

“I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for his leadership, and the manager. Many of us, Mr. Speaker, have come to the floor of the House time and time again and supported our troops, supported their families, wanted them to have increased dollars in their compensation; but today I come with a heavy heart that issues of war and peace are in this bill, the authorization bill, and we have not had the time to debate this in front of the American people. Sending young men and women in the midst of a storm in war where they may lose their life, and yet this majority refuses to give us hours of time to show the American people what the commitment is, I raise a question. And then, of course, a bill that attacks the constitutional authority of the President of the United States in an immigration bill that is closed in falsehoods because the President is not going beyond the law; he is not changing the law. He has the authority to use his executive power for humanitarian relief, and he is saving the parents of children who are citizens. This is a wrong rule, and I ask my colleagues to vote against it.”