Let me say to my colleagues, I don't think there is much more that I can say than repeat the story of the 33-month fight by their little girl. It is $100,000 that we are asking to help these parents who are desperate and mourning. I ask my colleagues to step a moment in the shoes of those mourning parents, to help avoid the identity theft that comes from a child because a child is dead and they have a Social Security number. So I ask my colleagues, again, to support the Jackson Lee amendment. I ask both sides of the aisle to consider the pain of parents who experience this. I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 2030
Sheila Jackson Lee: “Let me say to my colleagues, I don't think there is much more that I can say than repeat the story of the 33-month fight…”
On the recordJuly 14, 2014
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