[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 110 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               CHILD TAX CREDIT AND JUSTICE IN THE COURTS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, the greatest wealth enhancer that I 
have seen in our immediate time in the United States Congress is the 
child tax credit, which should be made permanent. It will provide an 
opportunity for life and liberty and, yes, freedom for families in my 
community; hardworking mothers and fathers and children who look up 
into your eyes, some of them sometimes hungry.
  It is important that this child tax credit be made permanent, and I 
stand here ready to move it as fast as possible. Thank you to our 
administration for what they are doing.
  Now, I simply want to talk about justice in the courts, justice in a 
court system that sentences individuals, nonviolent individuals to 
years in prison to rot, even individuals who have done reimbursement or 
compensation for their offense. Courts have to be, yes, a coequal 
branch of government, but they have to have justice.
  What about an individual that I have no stake in who happens to be an 
entertainer under a horrible guardianship, forced to take medications, 
forced not to have children?
  I am on the Judiciary Committee and there is a lot to be done. Yes, 
it is a coequal branch of government, but there has to be real justice. 
When you go into a courthouse you deserve justice.

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