[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 186 (Friday, October 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H5823-H5824]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              MAKING AMERICA THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, it gives me great joy when I can come 
to the floor and really speak directly to the moms and dads and 
families that right now, as we stand on the floor, are probably looking 
to gather children from schools, looking at what they are going to do 
over the weekend, maybe doing grocery shopping and looking at the 
resources that they do have or do not have.
  It is important that we immediately pass the Build Back Better Act 
and that those who have a difference of opinion realize that it is 
always the greater good that America has always been about. When we 
have gone to war, we have not gone to war to be an offender. We have 
gone to war to defend principles of democracy.
  I believe the Build Back Better Act will provide greater pricing of 
prescription drugs, strengthening the Affordable Care Act, expanding 
Medicaid for some 12 States. The State of Texas happens to be one of 
them, where 733,000-plus people are uninsured. These are working 
people. Expanding Federal Medicaid is going to help those people in 
States like Kansas and South Dakota. If they won't speak for 
themselves, I will speak for America.
  In addition, the care economy really says that we must give childcare 
and universal kindergarten to people so that we can be advanced and our 
people can be helped.
  Finally, let me say that voting is important and crucial. We must 
pass voting rights.
  This is Build Back Better America, and build back makes America the 
best country in the world.

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