Sheila Jackson Lee

I am very grateful to the chairman for the time. I thank him so very much. Again, this is an outstanding tennis player. This is a young man. These are styles that are neat and certainly acceptable. This is a Native American. Again, a Black…

I thank the distinguished chairman for yielding, and I thank, with deep appreciation, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman. I am delighted to be an original cosponsor, and I thank the Committee on the Judiciary for really standing for these…

First of all, let me acknowledge just a stunning and very pivotal and important Black history message that our whip has given. He really is our historian, and I certainly want to pay tribute and give credence to the great work that he has…

I, too, rise in strong support of H.R. 3485, the Global Respect Act of 2021, which mandates a listing of and visa restrictions on foreign persons responsible for or complicit in human rights violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual…

As a senior member of the House and the Committee on Homeland Security, and as Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, and a member of the Equality Caucus, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3485, the…

Many of our jurisdictional committees have oversight over the major league sports teams, from baseball to basketball to football. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I have been engaged with my committee in the oversight of the…

As a senior member of the House and the Committee on Homeland Security, and as Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, and a member of the Equality Caucus, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3076, the…

I thank the chair and the ranking member for this amazing legislation. To my good friend from Oregon, Mr. DeFazio, I remember that bill year after year after year because the post office was given the death penalty. That is what happened…

I thank the gentlewoman from California, as always, for reminding us in almost every moment of her tenure here in the United States Congress of the spirit and the investment that Shirley Chisholm made in her personally and the investment…

The head of the NFL said that racism of any kind is unacceptable. Having worked on these issues since the very beginning of my tenure in the United States Congress, including hearings in Houston on brain injuries that were undiagnosed, I…

As a senior member of the House and the Committee on Homeland Security, and as Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, I rise in strong support of H.R. 4445, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual…

I thank the distinguished chairman for his leadership, and I thank my distinguished friend from Illinois, Congresswoman Bustos for her constant determination. It is wonderful that H.R. 4445 is restoring freedom and justice to women. It is…

This morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, the outstanding speakers of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Bryan Stevenson combined together to say, Use your faith to make a difference. Let me applaud the President…

First of all, I think it is important to say how great it is to have an opportunity to create jobs and promote human rights at the same time, while respecting our fellow Americans, Asian Pacific Americans. I think it is important that we…

This is reminiscent of more than a decade and a half ago, but it means that it is long overdue for us to now start anew with the America COMPETES Act, H.R. 4521. Let me, first of all, say that in the passage of legislation, isn't it…

My real point is that we need to get serious about domestic terrorism. The lives lost through domestic terrorism is compelling and increasing. Until we get serious about the actions of the Oath Keepers and the boogaloo boys and the Nazi…

Sadly I rise to indicate that domestic terrorism is on the rise in America. We have all faced the tragedies of terroristic acts by our fellow Americans, chiefly, of course, the January 6 insurrection, which it is so striking to me that…

Yesterday was the Federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, and I accepted the challenge of the Martin Luther King family, under the name of Martin Luther King III, his oldest child: No celebration without legislation. So I rise in…

I am grateful for the distinguished leader of this debate, Mr. Butterfield, and his service to this Nation. Madam Speaker, this is a somber, sacred moment in our lives on this floor. I stand here in the name of the blood shed by those foot…

Today is my birthday, and I could not think of a better gift for the American people. In the last 24 hours, we found that five States--Republicans--decided to put in false certifications to determine that Trump actually won the November…

The issue is very clear. In his wrongheaded dispatching of our guard to the border--of course, this is a Federal responsibility, the southern border--we now have documented crises, guards committing suicide, guards not getting their…

Spoken like my good friend from Colorado, Mr. Perlmutter--who I really insist that he remain in this body for his astuteness and his way of analyzing--might I just take a quick moment to say that the schools of America are open. But today…

``We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and…

As a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary, on Homeland Security, and on the Budget, I rise in support of S.J. Res. 33--Joint resolution relating to increasing the debt limit, a measure raising the national debt limit by $2.5…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 5665, Combating International Islamophobia Act. I have listened to my friends on the other side of the aisle, and they are my friends. I hope that we will…