Political Quotes

“And I am grateful for the death gratuities for troops in the case of a government shutdown. And the funds prohibited to use outside of the War Powers Resolution in Syria and Iraq. But, most importantly, my constituents are suffering from a lack of healthcare because of the undermining of the Affordable Care Act that we are still fighting for. So I am very grateful for the $39.1 billion for the National Institutes of Health; $4.4 billion for programs that respond to the opioid crisis; $7.9 billion for the Centers for Disease Control, and, of course, what is so important to our constituents in Houston and Texas is that our community health centers that are our first line of defense to those who don't have healthcare; $678 million for a maternal and child health block grant--we have some of the largest numbers of maternal death in Houston among African American women; $10 billion for Head Start; and then specifically I want to talk about the unaccompanied children, $1.3 billion, but I am grateful for the language that demands of this administration to tell us who is there that has not been reunited with their families, and then the 12,000 that are in the jurisdiction of HHS. We have got to get those individuals united with their families and we have got to be able to have ICE arrest the sponsors. Finally, Mr. Speaker, $10.3 million for a domestic violence hotline.…”