[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 168 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RAISE THE DEBT CEILING

  (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. Madam Speaker, George Washington fought for the 
Nation. Abraham Lincoln tried to unify it.
  I am absolutely stunned that the United States Senate would not 
uphold its responsibility to pay America's bills--the bills that we 
have paid over and over again--by refusing to raise the debt ceiling 
for some foolish tomfoolery of politics. What is our Nation up to? What 
are the Republicans up to?
  But I do want to say as well that I look forward to the budget 
reconciliation or the Build Back America and the INVEST Act traveling 
the same pathway because my district needs the extra $20 million that 
we had established here in the House to be able to help the corridor 
along Scott Street where Texas Southern University is and the 
University of Houston, a majority university and a historically Black 
university.
  We have to get to work. We have to realize that the importance of 
connecting neighborhoods that lost the connectiveness because of major 
highways is crucial-- like I45 North that divided the community; like 
288, that is already there, that has divided communities of color.

  Let's do the right thing and stand for the American people. Politics 
has no place for deciding whether people have clean water, whether 
people have roads that work and mobility, and, of course, broadband.
  Madam Speaker, let's stand with the American people.

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