[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 119 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H2670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      WEAR YOUR MASK TO SAVE LIVES

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I stand here on the floor of the House 
wearing my mask in order to indicate not only to my own hometown, 
Houston, Texas, Harris County, and the State of Texas, but also to the 
Nation, that we are in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that is killing 
Americans, upwards of numbers that we have never seen.
  We now are at 500,000 dead worldwide and 10 million cases. In the 
United States, we have 2.5 million cases and now upwards of 125,000 to 
126,000 dead.
  It is imperative that we take this seriously and that this becomes 
not partisan, not bipartisan, but with no partisanship whatsoever.
  It is important to wear your mask, to clean your hands, to have 
social distance, no matter who you are. And it is imperative that we 
test, test, test.
  I opened the first testing site on March 19. I have opened 13 since. 
I will be leaving here to go home to open more testing sites.
  Houstonians and Harris Countians are clamoring for tests. Let the 
government not stop testing. Test, test, test. We have to save lives.
  Wear your mask to save lives.

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