[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6167]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         BUILD BACK BETTER NOW

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I just wanted to be able to really 
inform the American people and to let my friends on the other side of 
the aisle know what they are missing out on. And that is the greatest 
effort to improve the quality of life of Americans and raise their 
economic level of living since Social Security under Franklin Delano 
Roosevelt, since the Great Society under Lyndon Baines Johnson.
  Working moms having the ability to not pay more than 7 percent of 
their income to get childcare. Young--just beginning school, three 
years old and four years old--and not one three- or four-year-old being 
left out of pre-K. Giving them the intellectual stairstep to make a 
difference in their lives.
  And in the State of Texas--the poster child for the uninsured--oh, my 
goodness, how we have suffered: 766,000 uninsured refuse to take the 
expanded Medicaid. And now we have the ability to give every person 
healthcare. And when I spoke to a group that was supported by the 
American Heart Association, they applauded.
  Build back better is what we need to do and we need to do it now and 
pass both bills, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill--changing lives in 
America.

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