[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 10, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1195]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          A PLEA TO ALL TEXANS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, this morning I make a personal plea to 
my fellow Texans.
  I recognize that there has been an overload of tiredness and desire 
to go back to work and maybe a desire to party.
  Unfortunately, with bad advice and political emphasis, the mask order 
will be lifted today on March 10 in our State.
  Our State is being plagued by the United Kingdom variant. We are 
still on the hot list for the number of deaths. We have not reached a 
certain number in terms of lowering the infection rate, and we haven't 
reached any kind of level in terms of vaccination.
  Removing the restrictions and having remove-mask parties is going to 
be a disaster.
  I make this plea: Wear your mask, socially distance. Restaurants and 
other businesses be responsible.
  We are on the way with a rescue, but I beg of my fellow Texans, let 
us not go backwards to create more deaths, to create more 
hospitalizations, more loved ones that we will not have at the dinner 
table.
  This is not a time to go backwards. This is a time to go forward. 
Wear your mask. Let's be responsible.
  I ask my constituents on Washington Avenue: Do not have a remove-mask 
party tonight because you will be walking into a destiny of death.

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