Sheila Jackson Lee

This weekend, I will join the AFL-CIO's 2018 MLK Conference dealing with civil and human rights. At that time, we will discuss the GOP tax scam that stops the labor movement in its tracks because 83 percent of the tax cuts goes to the…

This body cannot be afraid of the Constitution. It has been our guiding moral force for this Nation for all of our beginnings and our nows. This amendment is truly an amendment that will protect and provide for the FBI to do its work and…

Let me repeat the refrain of those of us who are members of the Judiciary Committee who have gone through this process since 9/11, and that is that we support the integrity and the importance of section 702 as a national security tool, and…

A little clarity I think is very important on a very, very important issue. I would like to call 140,000 young people in my State DREAMers because they dream of the greatness of America. The status that they are under is something called…

This is a minimal standard of which every American should expect and is owed. It is a minimal standard upon which we stand the Constitution. We are missing what our role is here. It is not to rush through a FISA bill that has been delayed…

That article suggests that we have the responsibility to protect America and Americans. I would make the point to my good friend, who mentioned that men and women or families sending their young people over to battlegrounds, they are…

Let me thank the gentleman from Florida for his astute assessment and analysis in his earlier remarks today, particularly sharing with us his experience on the Intelligence Committee, and I thank him for mentioning the fact that I serve as…

I have often come to this floor to remind my colleagues of the devastation that the people of Texas have experienced with Hurricane Harvey. I certainly don't intend to ignore our other friends in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Florida…

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. I believe it is so important that the communication--the work that we are getting ready to do here in the United States, to provide communications technology, needs to go forward. We must…

Let me thank both gentlemen from California for their leadership and for their very important work on a very important crisis fight for human rights and freedom. Just yesterday I rose to the floor of the House to recount my experience over…

I encourage my colleagues to support H.R. 3202, and I thank my manager as well. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in support of H.R. 3202, the Cyber Vulnerabilities Disclosure Reporting Act. I thank Chairman McCaul and Ranking Member Thompson…

And I thank the manager for his kind words. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 3202, the Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure Reporting Act. I very much want to thank the committee for bringing the Jackson Lee bill to the floor and the work…

I want to thank Congressman Evans for the mighty leadership that he has given and for the service that he gives to his constituents in Philadelphia. I accept his challenge, and I accept the challenge of my chairman, Cedric Richmond, who…

Freedom is not partisan. Yesterday, on the corner of Post Oak and Westheimer in Houston, Texas, I stood with Iranian Americans, linking arms with them as they protested and petitioned for a free and democratic Iran. I told them that the…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from New York; I want to thank the chairman; but I do want to take a moment and particularly thank the gentlewoman from New York for the kindness that she showed the first victims of this horrific hurricane…

We have 300,000 homes underwater. Puerto Rico has no lights in homes; U.S. Virgin Islands, none, no homes. Key West still needs debris picked up. What my constituents are saying is, because the lights are out, we are forgotten; because…

I rise this evening to celebrate the life of a dear friend, the Honorable Peter Brown, former council member at large for the city of Houston. Tomorrow he will be memorialized in Houston, Texas. It saddens me that I will not be able to…

They are throwing over the cliff the Medicaid recipients, people with dementia. My good friend who has ALS, who is in a wheelchair, thrown over the cliff. They are throwing over teachers. They are throwing over individuals who are…

I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding. It is certainly my pleasure to be on the side of the gentlewoman from California. Every time we have got in these fights to attack Dodd- Frank, she has been on the right side of the…

I hold in my hand the vote tally for the ``Tax No Jobs'' bill. It is interesting, when you are asked about the tax bill, they put the word ``jobs.'' This was a very close vote, and 12 Republicans understood this was the worst vote, worst…

As a member of the Budget Committee, I rise in strong and unyielding opposition to the Conference Report for H.R. 1, the so-called ``Tax Cut and Jobs Act,'' which more accurately should be called the ``Republican Tax Scam Act.'' With this…

As a member of the Budget Committee, I rise in strong and unyielding opposition to the rule and the Conference Report to H.R. 1, the so-called ``Tax Cut and Jobs Act,'' which more accurately should be called the ``Republican Tax Scam…

A bill that is done in the dark of night, in the midst of a crisis like the lack of Perkins funding for our students, the lack of funding for CHIP and for healthcare for millions of Americans--yet our friends on the other side go without…

Wherever I go throughout my district and speak to an audience, I always acknowledge the veterans and Active- Duty military. I think that is one unifying factor for this Congress and for this Nation. Today, the President offered a national…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me and for her leadership on this very important issue. She is standing in the gap because all that we have heard from Republicans and their media advocates is that their intention, of course, is to…