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On the recordJanuary 9, 2020
America is not safe or safer because of the acts that occurred local time on January 3, 2020. America is in more jeopardy, as are our brave men and women in the United States military, whom we hold in the highest esteem and say to their families: We are obligated and committed to honoring and thanking you, but to also recognizing, when we send you into battle, there would and should be the consultation, the engagement, the understanding of the intelligence and the work between Article I, the United States Congress, and Article II, the President of the United States. I will not allow any Member of Congress to malign my Gold Star families or to suggest that any Member here does not respect the ultimate sacrifice that their family members took. Family members who are Gold Star should not be used in a political debate. They should only be honored. And I will not accept anyone describing Democrats as mourning terrorists. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas

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