Sheila Jackson Lee: “I thank my colleagues for giving me the opportunity to be able to speak this afternoon from the heart. Democrats have…”

“I thank my colleagues for giving me the opportunity to be able to speak this afternoon from the heart. Democrats have done great things. We have certainly appreciated the Members of the other side of the aisle who have joined us on some of those. Those things include passing a very effective CHIPS bill that I hope to bring thousands of jobs to my congressional district through the production and manufacturing, using precious metals, in particular, coming from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We now have families who suffer from diabetes who, shockingly, for the first time in their lives, can have insulin capped at $35. I am glad to have been a part of that. I seek, as I did before, that Medicaid recipients can also have their insulin capped. I am glad that working families, in this storm of inflation, can, through the Biden administration and Congress, have subsidies for healthcare and get cheaper healthcare. I am glad that the flooding that is so intensive in places like Houston, can, in fact, now have the bipartisan infrastructure bill; and isolated communities without transportation or transit can, in fact, now have the potential of billions of dollars coming to those rural and urban centers, inner-city centers that need an infrastructure rebuild. We need clean water, and Flint and Jackson, Mississippi, should not be the norm in the United States of America; and lead in pipes that helped destroy the cognitive genius of our children should not exist.…”