Sheila Jackson Lee: “It was very difficult to come to Washington, leaving my constituents behind, having engaged with them for all of the…”

“It was very difficult to come to Washington, leaving my constituents behind, having engaged with them for all of the moments that I have been in the district. They are good people. The State of Texas is filled with good people. The Nation is filled with good people. How we got to 300,000 cases and thousands of deaths, 10,000 cases in the last 24 hours in our jurisdictions of Harris County and Houston, is tragic and baffling. We opened too early. A number of Members of Congress have written our Governor and asked him to return authority to our local communities, our county and our city, to allow them to make determinations of a stay-at-home order-- painful, I know it is--in order to be able to do this by science and medicine. Let me be very clear. The headlines in my paper said today it is difficult doing contact tracing. People are out and about. You don't have good information. So I am asking the Governor to adhere to our request. But more importantly, I want my colleagues to work with me to restore the National Guard that were stupendous in doing testing. We do not have enough. And I look forward to working with Armed Services and others to ensure the Texas National Guard can be back to do testing to help save lives. We have got to save lives, and we should not be a respecter of what State. We are one State and one Nation. ____________________”