Sheila Jackson Lee: “Let me thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania and thank my colleagues for this vigorous discussion and the unanimous…”

“Let me thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania and thank my colleagues for this vigorous discussion and the unanimous consent. I want to give them comfort. Tomorrow, we will be able to vote on the Heroes bill that we ask each and every one of them to support to provide moneys not only for small businesses but nonprofits and faith institutions because we believe in the American people, and we are going to keep them working. I look forward to them joining this bipartisan effort, supporting the Heroes bill that we have offered under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi. {time} 1245 I rise today to support both H. Res. 1153 and H. Res. 1154. I traveled to Irwin County this past weekend, but my exposure to this tragedy was not just that day; just last week, with butterflies in my stomach, if you will, and concern for a young woman, 29 years old, about to enter onto a plane that she obviously was directed to go to a place that she had never been, or had not been since she was 2 years old, a young woman from Cameroon who did have, who admits that her fallopian tube was removed without her consent. So people of color are not unused to having medical procedures without our consent. Women are not unused to and unfamiliar with having medical procedures without their consent. Think about these women, speaking mostly a different language, detained for civil matters, and that is, not being statused.…”