[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 29 (Thursday, February 14, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HUMANITARIAN COMPROMISE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, 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 particular, it raised the number to 100,000 alternative 
detention sites for women and children; it provided healthcare where 
there was no healthcare so that little children would not die at the 
border; and it prevented ICE from using data to deport people who are 
trying to pick up their children.
  The good news is our Federal employees will not be held as hostages, 
and we have given them a 1.9 percent raise. As well, we provided for 
Food for Peace, for people who are struggling around the world, $1.7 
billion.
  As a member of the Judiciary Committee, we provided $423 million for 
the Byrne Grant; $178 million to address sexual assault kits and other 
DNA; $100 million for STOP School Violence; $497 million, Madam 
Speaker, for the Violence Against Women Act; and $75 million for gun 
control, or at least the checks for background.
  Madam Speaker, this is a humanitarian bill, and I ask my colleagues 
to recognize it.

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