Sheila Jackson Lee: “Let me rise in support of and with rebuttal to my good friend, my other good friend from Pennsylvania. It is well-known…”

“Let me rise in support of and with rebuttal to my good friend, my other good friend from Pennsylvania. It is well-known that the appropriations process is an investment in America, and so I rise to support the appropriations that will be presented to us in this rule T-HUD, Agriculture, Energy and Water, Financial Services, Interior, Military Construction, and Veterans. I ask the question: Is anyone going to suggest that our military personnel do not need better housing, better schools, better facilities, and bases, both in the United States and across the world? And so, investment in the American people I will never run away from, and I hope the Senate does not, as well. And on the question of inflation, I want to remind my good friend from Pennsylvania, my other good friend, that the prices of gas at the pump are going down, because inflation is not pertaining to one administration; it is continuing. And the past administration dug the hole of the inflation that we are now in today. I also want to make sure that every aspect of reproductive freedom is protected, and the contraceptive legislation should be strongly supported because people are running for their lives. Women are running for their lives because they do not have the lack of fear that they could be arrested; that they could be stopped; or a doctor could say: I am sorry, I cannot help you in your desperate time of need. This rule is very important, and I support the underlying bills.…”