Sheila Jackson Lee: “I stand here on the floor of the House wearing my mask in order to indicate not only to my own hometown, Houston, Texas…”

“I stand here on the floor of the House wearing my mask in order to indicate not only to my own hometown, Houston, Texas, Harris County, and the State of Texas, but also to the Nation, that we are in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that is killing Americans, upwards of numbers that we have never seen. We now are at 500,000 dead worldwide and 10 million cases. In the United States, we have 2.5 million cases and now upwards of 125,000 to 126,000 dead. It is imperative that we take this seriously and that this becomes not partisan, not bipartisan, but with no partisanship whatsoever. It is important to wear your mask, to clean your hands, to have social distance, no matter who you are. And it is imperative that we test, test, test. I opened the first testing site on March 19. I have opened 13 since. I will be leaving here to go home to open more testing sites. Houstonians and Harris Countians are clamoring for tests. Let the government not stop testing. Test, test, test. We have to save lives. Wear your mask to save lives. ____________________”