[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 3, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H9211]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        SUPPORTING HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I rise to join my colleagues in the 
Congressional Black Caucus to celebrate and recognize the importance of 
educational opportunities at the Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities, creating opportunities for thousands of young men and 
women, many of them first-time college attendees. I am delighted to 
have Texas Southern University in my congressional district and, as 
well, to have Prairie View A&M in the near area.
  I was very instrumental in getting Hurricane Harvey relief dollars 
and financial aid relief for students at the campus of Texas Southern 
University in the amount of $13 million and to be able to help digitize 
the projects for former U.S. Members of Congress Barbara Jordan and 
Mickey Leland.
  As well, I remember working with Prairie View A&M when they helped 
establish a very grand criminal justice center that is educating many 
young people.
  But I am really here to support the FUTURE Act, Fostering 
Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education, supported by 
the House and passed out of the House on September 17, 2019.
  Unfortunately, this bill is held up in the Senate. This House bill is 
much better. We support the House bill and would ask the Senator from 
Tennessee to do what he should do, which I believe he has done: to make 
sure that bill goes out, and goes out as the House bill.
  This is a bill to focus on STEM and to create opportunities for our 
young people. I support HBCUs and opportunities for those young people.

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