[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 147 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                        PASS THE LABOR-HHS BILL

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, time is fast approaching for 
this Congress to do its business. There are at least five 
appropriations bills that we have not yet addressed. We call it 
deadlock; but in my town of Houston, we cannot afford any more deadlock 
as it relates to our children. Violence continues. Just this past week 
we lost a young middle schooler through a violent act in his school, 
struck down by a screwdriver to his head.
  There is a great need for attention to our children, for stopping the 
violence, for intervention; and we need to pass a Labor-HHS bill that 
will provide more funding for mental health.
  I will be offering before the session ends the Give-a-Kid-a-Chance 
Omnibus Mental Health Bill, which provides access to mental health 
services for all of our children, to make sure that our community 
health clinics provide a holistic approach to the treating of the 
parent, the child, the support system around that child, the community, 
in order to understand that ending violence with our children is a 
community effort, a community affair, and mental health is not bad, it 
is good.
  Pass the Labor-HHH bill and provide more funding for mental health 
services in America.

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