Sheila Jackson Lee

I include in the Record an article: `` `Open secret' at Royal Palm High School: At least 15 students were lured to Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion'' right out of the school. Open Secret at Royal Palm High: At Least 15 Students Were…

I would just simply like to suggest that we can find trafficking in many other places. I also include in the Record the article: ``Epstein's `ground zero': How the financier reportedly wreaked havoc on Royal Palm Beach High School…

Let me draw upon these final efforts and words so that you can know that now, after we have come back, the clarion call of crisis is out. ``U.N. chief calls for massive help as Pakistan puts flood losses at $30 billion.'' The U.N…

This is a devastating time for the people of Pakistan. Mr. Speaker, I rise to share this with my colleagues and to ensure that their story is in the public eye because it is a story that addresses devastation like you have never seen…

I first want to indicate my appreciation to President Biden and Secretary Walsh, for, yes, diving in and stopping a union worker/freight industry collision and understanding the importance of providing benefits to our hard workers…

I ask my colleagues to support the en bloc, the underlying legislation, and the Jackson Lee amendment. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2988, the Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act, and thank you for bringing this…

I thank the distinguished gentlewoman for her work as chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform. Again, I give her my deepest appreciation for the enormous legacy of leadership that she has given to issues of empowerment, civil…

I want to dispel the myths of the smoke and mirrors that are flaming up across the way with my friends. Do they not recognize the opportunity that we have for reducing the costs of healthcare with subsidies so that working families can get…

I thank the distinguished chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise enthusiastically to support the rule and the underlying bill. As I do so, let me ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to join me in asking President Trump to…

I urge a ``yes'' vote for H.R. 1808. That is a fact. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 1808, the ``Assault Weapons Ban of 2022,'' that would prohibit the sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and…

I think that we will spend most of our time here today where facts will be told and then rhetorical conversations will be told, as well. Fact: The Constitution, in the Second Amendment, does not prohibit the ban on assault weapons. Fact…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. We can see the lengths the Democrats have gone to to simply try to save lives. With John Lewis we sat on the floor of the House, not regarding what would happen to us personally after Parkland and…

This bill would boost pay and benefits for firefighters, help the U.S. Forest Service fill gaps in fire management staff, expand forest management projects, and reduce hazardous fuels. I ask my colleagues to support the underlying bill…

Last week, I viewed a wall that showed Brittney Griner and a list of hostages, American citizens, held around the world. A few weeks ago, the United States House went on record to demand the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. I…

Over this past week, we have had to raise concerns about whether the Constitution still stood strong. I am glad that we have worked hard to ensure the Ninth Amendment and the equal protection of the law are viable parts of American society…

My friends on the other side of the aisle must have amnesia. You know why we are on this floor today? Because of the Dobbs case from a runaway Supreme Court, dominated by Members who answered that they understood precedent in Roe v. Wade…

I thank the gentlewoman for her graciousness. That is an ongoing issue that we have in our community, where the communities are not taken into consideration when the houses are leveled and when the flooding is increased by an…

I thank the gentlewoman for her leadership, and the ranking member, as well. Let me say that America is going to get not a payday but an investment. Unlike how my colleagues like to characterize the hard work of the appropriators and our…

I thank the sponsors of this legislation and the leadership of our chairman, and, as well, the millions of families that are, in fact, families. My good friend from Ohio started out with the litany of violence, of which none of us stands…

I believe this law is key to rejecting the interpretation of Justice Clarence Thomas, who indicated, or speculated, that other provisions or rights under privacy may be in jeopardy. We should not jeopardize someone's right to love who they…

Let me rise in support of and with rebuttal to my good friend, my other good friend from Pennsylvania. It is well-known that the appropriations process is an investment in America, and so I rise to support the appropriations that will be…

I hold in my hand the interim report 2022 Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary School Shooting. Tragically, I was there within days of the shooting in May. Tragically, I got to listen to parents whose children bled out. All of us…

I stand, as I said earlier, with a 10-year-old victim who had to run to be able to secure an abortion after being raped. I stand on the Constitution where the Fifth Amendment says that we are due life and liberty. I stand in front of ``In…

I thank my good friends, Lizzie Fletcher and Marilyn Strickland and Jamie Raskin, for understanding the Constitution. Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Donahue threw a Molotov cocktail in a clinic, an abortion clinic, in Shreveport, Louisiana…

I thank all of the leaders who recognize that reproductive freedom is a constitutional right. I rise today, and I stand in the name of a 10-year-old rape victim who was denied an abortion and had to run to another State. I stand in the…