Sheila Jackson Lee

The nation, as Joe Biden has said, is not living with COVID-19. They are dying with COVID-19.

Desperate people do desperate things during desperate times.

As a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary and on Homeland Security, I rise in strong support of H. Res. 1154, a resolution condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes. QAnon is a movement promoting a…

Thank you to the gentlewoman who is managing this resolution, and thank you very much to Mr. Malinowski for bringing us together. I think I started out earlier this morning by saying the Nation is better than this. It is not because people…

We awoke this morning to daunting news in this Nation, and I know that the Nation prays. I want to thank the gentlewoman from Washington for her distinguished service, and our fellow coleaders and cosponsors, Congresswomen Kuster, Garcia…

I take this time to not only speak to the American people about voting, but also just take a brief moment to pay a beginning tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She deserves a much longer period of acknowledgment, and I am going to do…

As a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary and on Homeland Security, I rise in strong support of Senate amendments to H.R. 925--America's Conservation Enhancement Act (an update of The Heroes Act), a much needed installment of…

The American people cannot wait. Help is on the way, and the only thing I can ask from my Republican friends is to take a walk in neighborhoods in their districts around the Nation where mothers and fathers are waiting on a disbursement…

As a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, I rise in strong support of H.R. 5139, the ``Stop Sexual Assault and Harassment in Transportation Act,'' which establishes formal sexual assault and harassment policies for the…

As a cosponsor and a senior member of the House of Representatives, I rise in strong support of H.R. 5068, the ``Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act,'' which would authorize the establishment of a memorial on…

So this is, of course, a very important initiative for helping to safeguard our elder population. But more importantly, I want to say that we need to end Alzheimer's, or dementia, as we know it, and I join my colleagues in supporting this…

I thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Bass) for yielding me the time. I hope my time has not started running. We are trying to be COVID-19 safe. Mr. Speaker, let me thank the sponsor of this bill, Mr. Deutch, and his bipartisan…

As a senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary, I rise in strong support of H.R. 8225, the ``Fight Notario Fraud Act,'' introduced by the gentlelady from Florida, Congresswoman Murcasel-Powell. I support this legislation because it…

As a senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary and Co-Chair of the Congressional Children's Caucus, I rise in strong support of H.R. 7718, the ``Protecting the Health and Wellness of Babies and Pregnant Women in Custody Act,''…

This is not a condemnation of ICE. Read the language. It just says that they should engage in more vigorous oversight, and they are doing that with an inspector general's investigation. Look at this. This is from one of the women: Liberty…

Let me thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania and thank my colleagues for this vigorous discussion and the unanimous consent. I want to give them comfort. Tomorrow, we will be able to vote on the Heroes bill that we ask each and every one…

I am so glad that my colleague invoked God's name on the floor of the House. As I stand here, I can read the words ``In God We Trust.'' We are blessed by a Nation that has the right and the protections to express our faith, our love of the…

I rise because in the last day, I feel compelled to speak about healing the Nation. Through my years of service, I have been able to serve on a number of committees and alliances in my Congressional district, in my city, in my State, that…

We need the testing. We are doing testing on the last pennies of the money that we were granted through the leadership, our Speaker and others. They need testing. I will be in a stadium this coming week, trying to get people tested. That…

I say to the gentleman from Massachusetts, the American people cannot take this anymore. And my good friend from Oklahoma, I know the compassion that he has. We have worked together, as well as my friends from Ohio and Arizona. But…

As a cosponsor and senior member of the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, I rise in strong support of H.R. 5469, the ``Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act of 2019,'' which addresses mental health issues for youth, particularly…

As the Founding Chair of the Congressional Children's Caucus and a senior member of the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2075, the ``School-Based Health Centers Reauthorization Act,'' which…

I want to answer the gentleman's question about ordinary Americans. These are ordinary Americans, some of whom, because of the climate change or the inequity in environmental injustice, have faced the wrong side of energy. I want them to…

You know the ordinary people that this legislation helps in my district are young African-American men unemployed, young African-American women unemployed, LatinX men and women, young African-American men, young LatinX men and women, and…

As a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary and Homeland Security, I rise in strong support of H.R. 8247, the ``Veterans Comprehensive Prevention, Access to Care, and Treatment Act of 2020'', which makes numerous improvements…