[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 66 (Thursday, April 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1897]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ISSUES OF THE DAY

  (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, I first want to take a moment to honor 
an esteemed pastor in my district, Pastor Ricky Bell, who has passed 
away after a valiant, strong, and vigorous fight against devastating 
cancer.
  I offer my sympathy to the members of the Forest Lawn Baptist Church, 
and to say to them, he was more than a giant in northeast Houston and 
in Houston, to his first lady, First Lady Bell, and to his family.
  I thank Pastor Bell for being a champion of veterans, for providing 
veterans housing, for being a force for education, and for being a 
spiritual leader.
  As we mourn Pastor Bell, and as we attend his going-home services, we 
honor the life that he led.
  I ask Members of this House to honor him and mourn him in their own 
silent way.
  Mr. Speaker, let me also acknowledge, at this time, that I ask my 
colleagues to join me in a resolution condemning the inaction by the 
Islamic Republic of Iran in addressing the poisoning of Iranian school 
girls--yes, poisoning the daughters of the Iranian Revolution and the 
formation of the Iranian Congressional Caucus.

  Over 500 people have been killed in the mass revolution of women and 
girls. Let me say this: Stop the poisoning of Iranian school children.

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