[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 50 (Thursday, March 21, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H1342-H1343]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          END CANCER CLUSTERS

  (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 rise to give dignity and respect to 
the victims of pollution across America, those who have suffered from 
toxic catastrophes, like the train derailment in

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Palestine, but, more importantly, the cancer clusters in Fifth Ward, 
Texas, in Kashmere Gardens and Settegast in the northeast part.
  The legislation, H.R. 7023, Creating Confidence in Clean Water 
Permitting Act, does the complete opposite by limiting the 
Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate the discharge 
of pollutants into the United States' waters. Those waters then trickle 
into the soil.
  That is what happened in Kashmere Gardens in Fifth Ward, where water 
pollution trickled into the soil and created cancer clusters in our 
neighborhoods. This area has the highest number of cancer clusters and 
cancer victims in the State and maybe the Nation.
  I am trying to fight it. I have put in an amendment that will require 
the Administrator to submit a report to Congress.
  I will not stop until we end the cancer clusters and stop the 
polluters that are over the people of this Nation. I will continue to 
fight.

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