Sheila Jackson Lee

I thank the gentleman for yielding. The only crisis is the constitutional crisis that has been created by the President of the United States by his direct and ill-conceived abuse of power which is noted in the Constitution as a violation…

As a senior member on the Judiciary Committee and senior member on the Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee, I, too, am glad of the underlying discussion regarding the protecting of women. I rise today to support H.R. 8…

Let me thank the gentlewoman from California for her astuteness, and, certainly, the manager of this legislation, and our friends on the other side of the aisle. Mr. Speaker, I simply want to try to craft the importance of H.J. Res. 46…

Just recently, I was very proud and pleased that this body passed my legislation, the Juvenile Block Grant Anti-Bullying and Intervention Act, dealing with the prevention of bullying but, more importantly, dealing with the opportunities…

This bill that we came to have to fix as a Republican bill was a compromise, but it was a compromise with humanitarianism and passion and compassion. This border security and funding bill that Democrats fixed did some good things. In…

This is a Republican bill that we are trying to fix to keep the government open and not holding our Federal employees hostage. I support this bill with qualifications that I know that in the 2020 fiscal year, Democrats will put forward a…

We have spent a very long day in the Judiciary Committee working on legislation to respond to the American people's cry for universal background checks, but I rise as well, in the backdrop of that legislation, to stand for the victims of…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts and the gentleman from California for their leadership on this matter. They have discussed this over the months, and I have been pleased to join them in this effort. Madam Speaker, U.S. bombs are…

The clarity that I would like to offer is that none of us should tolerate any shutdown of the government or ever holding our Federal workers hostage to policy debates, and that is for my colleagues and friends on the other side of the…

I rise this afternoon to recognize and acknowledge gun victims in America. This week in the Judiciary Committee, we held an important hearing on beginning the first steps toward real commonsense gun safety legislation. In listening to…

I thank the gentlewoman very much, and I acknowledge the words of the ranking member of the full committee and acknowledge the work of the chairman, Mr. Nadler, of the committee. I am glad that these bills that we have just debated and one…

I thank the gentlewoman from California for her leadership, and I thank both the ranking member and the full committee chair. And I thank Mr. Deutch from Florida, for it looks like, in this instance, Florida and Texas and many other States…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for engaging in the colloquy on this important issue, and I think we have created a record that indicates that this bill is the Tiffany Joslyn Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program Reauthorization…

That is my desire at this time. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers. Does the gentleman?

We are awaiting a ruling, and may have to--but I at least want to get it on the Record. You see what I am saying?

That is clearly what we are trying to do. If I might engage the gentleman in a dialogue: it reads, ``the Tiffany Joslyn Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program Reauthorization Act,'' and it has always read, over the years, ``and…

Let me thank the gentleman. We are inquiring, and I am just going to say it publicly. We were about to engage the ranking member, but we are inquiring to be sure that the bill is complete. Its language was, ``and Anti-Bullying and…

Let me, first of all, thank the ranking member for his kind support of this legislation. I think we have been together long enough to know how important this kind of work is; and a tribute to his father, who certainly probably ran across a…

Let me say that the gentleman from New York is doing an excellent job. He has translated the great leadership of the New York legislature and brought it here to the House. We thank the gentleman for his service. I have been affected by the…

I thank the managers of the resolution, both of them, the gentleman from Missouri and the gentleman from North Carolina. I thank Ms. Wexton and Mr. Connolly for capturing the essence of what this legislation is all about. It is not…

It is ridiculous to say that Federal employees have been paid too much. They have been victims of attacks of, What do these people do? There have been charges of waste, fraud, and abuse. With the government shutdown we know what these…

I thank the gentleman from Maryland for his astute analysis and his service on the Rules Committee, and I thank my good friend from Georgia for offering his recognition of the value of our Federal workers. Mr. Speaker, this morning, I…

As we put the pieces back together again, the Budget Committee had a meeting with the Congressional Budget Office director. We know that it is clear that during this shutdown, the Nation lost $11 billion; $3 billion of it will not be…

Allow me to thank the chairman for facilitating this bill to the floor and the support of our ranking member, Mr. Rogers, for this legislation and the work that we do on the Committee on Homeland Security. Mr. Speaker, before I start…

Last Friday the 25th of January, 2019, was a day of celebration for 800,000 Federal workers. They joined me at the Federal office building which my office is in, and we stood together listening to their pain and their stories of trying to…