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Sheila Jackson Lee: In my district, over the past couple of days, a baby, 8 years old, has been shot. A baby, 5 years old, has been shot.…

On the recordMarch 7, 2018
In my district, over the past couple of days, a baby, 8 years old, has been shot. A baby, 5 years old, has been shot. Other individuals have been shot and killed. And, of course, the death and the pillage of mass murders continue, and those in Florida are still suffering, and no gun action at all, no debate. Additionally, young people are in the streets, their families are fearful because the DACA fix promised by this President has not been done. We need to do our work, if we are Americans; we need to do it for good for all of those who live within the confines of this Nation. Then, finally, we had an election yesterday in Texas full of mistakes and closed polls and nonworking machines. Yet, the President of the United States has $120 million to safeguard our elections in 2018 and he has done absolutely nothing. It is a demand that we begin to look at the Russian intrusion, faulty voting polls and machines, and begin to address the American people's right and civil liberty of voting--one vote, one person--without the fear and the apprehension of Russians intruding into an election in 2018 in order to skew the Federal elections. Enough is enough. It is time for us to act. ____________________
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas
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Mar 7, 2018

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