Sheila Jackson Lee

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I think it is important for the American people to know that it has been 5 years since we have been able to put pen to paper and develop a massive infrastructure bill going out to desperate Americans who…

I stand here on the floor of the House wearing my mask in order to indicate not only to my own hometown, Houston, Texas, Harris County, and the State of Texas, but also to the Nation, that we are in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that is…

As a senior member of the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Budget Committees, I rise in strong and enthusiastic support of H.R. 7301, the ``Emergency Housing Protections and Relief Act of 2020,'' which addresses the needs of renters and…

I thank the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee for his dynamic leadership. Let me indicate that I stand here today in the midst of a catastrophic pandemic of COVID-19 in the State of Texas and in my congressional district in…

This is a somber moment, and I thank the gentleman from Florida for not only his passion but his recognition that America should never forget. I thank the Speaker pro tempore for letting us remember all the faces and families and loved…

I want to give all acknowledgment to the outstanding gentlewoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton. President Washington said: ``The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.'' Nothing in the Constitution says that we cannot make the…

I say to my community in Houston that I know that they are celebrating the idea that the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act has passed. I look forward to going home and engaging with them and indicating that we are re-imagining police…

I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask the question: Where is the party of Lincoln? Where is the moment of courage when the slaves were freed in that moment in 1863? This Senate bill, the…

As a senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary, as an original cosponsor of the legislation, and the author of several of its key legislative provisions, I rise in strong and enthusiastic support of H.R. 7120, the George Floyd…

My friends on the other side of the aisle are consistently being persistent in the language of why process for them is more important than saving lives. I answer the question with a little book called the Constitution of the United States…

Black lives do matter, and the President has to, in order to be an effective leader and healer and to be able to look at legislation that can be both the front end and the back end.

Truth is truth and what the President needs to do, Anderson, is exactly what you have said. But he has got to broaden his spirit of those who he is willing to listen to.

It baffles me that the President of the United States and his staff can't take a deep dive into this legislation and realize that America just cannot continue on the pathway that it is.

It seems to me the protesters are also calling for law and order. They just want equal protection under the law. That's what true law and order is about.

The assignment of George Floyd and the purpose will mean there will be no more eight minutes and 46 seconds of police brutality.

I thank the chairwoman for her leadership with the ranking member, Mr. Phillips and Mr. Roy. Mr. Speaker, I stand in strong support because 100,000 people are dead. Small businesses are living in the midst of those communities of…

I thank the gentleman from California for his leadership. I thank Mr. Smith for his leadership as well, and the gentleman from Texas, my colleague, for his leadership; and listening to the Speaker for her continued years of leadership. The…

I want to pause for a moment and now come to something that has soaked my very DNA and my soul, and that is that a young man by the name of Ahmaud Arbery cannot jog in Georgia and be left to his constitutional rights. They were denied. He…

We are in the backdrop of commemorating Memorial Day just 2 days ago, when the Nation bowed their heads to honor the fallen. We did that without question, without equivocation. But we also acknowledge, and I stand here today acknowledging…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. We heard on this floor, Mr. Speaker, God bless America, and now we know that America is sick and needs that blessing. Her lives, her livelihood are sick. This is not Speaker Pelosi's bill. This is…

We need rural, city, local, and State funding and $15 million in rental assistance. We need to do this resolution and pass the HEROES legislation now. Mr. Speaker, as a senior member of the Committees on the Judiciary, and on Homeland…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. We cannot do and cannot do--and how many times can I say it?--we cannot stand here and do nothing. The Constitution has no provision that prohibits this body from doing something to avoid a catastrophe…

Let me acknowledge that people are dying. That sometime in the future, we may have one-sixth of the number of people that died in World War II in the battles on behalf of the United States. I rise because I support this legislation because…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise to support the underlying bill, which was made much safer to save lives and to provide economic opportunity. But, as well, I rise to support the bipartisan, as it should be…

I join my friend from Michigan. There should be no one who rises to object, in spite of the fact that we know there are challenges in this bill. But I hear these words: ``We are scared. We are stressed,'' the words of an emergency room…