[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 47 (Thursday, March 19, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H1774]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TWO ISSUES OF JUSTICE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, this morning, I speak on two issues of 
justice. One deals with my alma mater, the University of Virginia. And 
I would like to thank the young man, the student who experienced an 
unfortunate incident that caused him to have 10 stitches and to bleed 
on the streets of Charlottesville by the hands of those who were 
enforcing the law. I want to join him by saying that we all should be 
treated with human dignity, and I thank the Governor of the State of 
Virginia for a full investigation. We have to find a way to balance law 
and order with the dignity of the treatment of African Americans and 
all people.
  I will also say that the hostage-taking of the Attorney General 
nominee by those who will not push for her confirmation on the floor of 
the Senate, of the other body, is not the handling of the Constitution 
and the advice and consent that is necessary in the process of 
government.
  She is qualified. She is ready to serve. The Nation needs a chief law 
enforcement officer. We must come together and find that balance that 
the Constitution protects, and that is the right of all people to 
access and freedom of speech. But we must also respect law and order. 
We have to find a way to walk that pathway together.

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