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Sheila Jackson Lee is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 18th congressional district since 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been an advocate for civil rights, social justice, and healthcare reform throughout her tenure. Jackson Lee has served on various committees, including the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, and has been involved in significant legislative efforts addressing issues such as immigration, education, and public safety.
We need to move swiftly, as this bill may be passed today, in order to avoid expiration, so that we can work collectively together for what parents of the addicted and others want: treatment services, wraparound services. We must be able…
And so we have a challenge to try and recoup and recover, for hardworking Americans, a real economy, because it is frightening when we begin to start losing jobs. Let me show how the trend went. We were adding 270,000 jobs per month under…
I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding. And I thank the sponsors of this very important amendment, Mr. Davis and Ms. Pingree. I rise to support the underlying bill, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act that I…
We should take a moment to honor an outstanding organization, Alpha Kappa Alpha. This is their Founders Day--112 years old. Isn't it interesting that young women who were in the shadow of the Emancipation Proclamation and the shadow of…
I thank the gentleman very much, and as I leave the floor, just want to take note of the contamination in the State of Texas and this is what we are fighting. Mr. Chair, as a senior member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, I…
I rise this morning to congratulate a very significant and historic high school, Jack Yates High School. Jack Yates High School was founded by the founding father, if you will, of the African American community in Houston, Freedmen's Town…
As a senior member of the House Committees on the Judiciary and on Homeland Security, as a member serving in this body on September 11, 2001 and throughout the fateful and tragic war in Iraq, and as an original cosponsor, I rise in strong…
The communities like the Fifth Ward and surrounding areas in Houston can be invaluable to assisting agencies in identifying ways to improve on the information provided to the general public--they live it every day. These are life or death…
The President cannot unilaterally go to war with Iran, nor are we safer since January 2, 2020, after having targeted and killed the second-in-command of Iran. The American people, as well as our troops, are in more jeopardy. In 2002, I was…
America is not safe or safer because of the acts that occurred local time on January 3, 2020. America is in more jeopardy, as are our brave men and women in the United States military, whom we hold in the highest esteem and say to their…
To the gentleman from New York, I would like to enter into a colloquy regarding creosote contamination in the 18th Congressional District. I certainly rise to support enthusiastically H.R. 535. For decades the residents of the Fifth Ward…
What I will say is that nothing in this resolution speaks to any named person. It says that this body, this Congress, must adhere to its duty to be able to ensure that the President of the United States does not unilaterally take us into…
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