[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 194 (Thursday, December 5, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H9280-H9281]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  DEMOCRATS ARE WORKING FOR THE GOODNESS AND GREATNESS OF THIS NATION

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, we do have a very solemn 
responsibility to uphold the rule of law, but it is important to note 
that Democrats and the majority in the House have worked every day for 
the American people.
  Among the 400 bills that we have supported are: H.R. 986, the 
Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act of 2019, 
legislation that I have consistently worked on for almost a decade; the 
Equality Act, which gives equality to all people; the Paycheck Fairness 
Act, to treat women fairly; the Climate Action Now Act and other 
legislation to recognize the crisis in climate change; national flood 
insurance, which my constituents in Texas are desperate for; directing 
the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the 
Republic of Yemen; and then, of course, a signature bill that I have 
written over a 2-year period, the Violence Against Women 
Reauthorization Act, which expands the rights of Native Americans and 
provides $291 million for our law enforcement and prosecutors.
  Finally, let me say, I was very proud to stand for H. Res. 183, 
condemning anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance, which 
are contradictory to the values and aspirations that define the people 
of the United States, and condemning anti-Muslim discrimination and 
bigotry against minorities as hateful expressions of intolerance.
  We have been working on behalf of the American people. We ask the 
other body to work, but we are doing our job for the goodness and the 
greatness of this Nation.

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