[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3435]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   TRIBUTE TO JUDGE LEON HIGGINBOTHAM

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I want to invite my colleagues 
of the House of Representatives to join me this evening for a special 
order to pay tribute to a wonderful and outstanding American, a jurist 
of great renown, the late Judge Leon Higginbotham. He was awarded the 
Presidential Medal of Honor in 1995 and the Raoul Wallenberg 
Humanitarian Award, and in 1994 South African President Nelson Mandela 
asked Higginbotham to be an international mediator. I would hope that 
we would spend our evening, this evening, paying tribute to this great 
American.


                     I Stand Here For The Children

  Mr. Speaker, let me also say that I stand here for the children. Be 
it liberal or conservative or moderate, I do not know who could not 
stand for the children.
  I believe we should, if my colleagues will, pay off the debt and as 
well save Social Security and Medicare. At the same time, we can give 
targeted child tax credits to businesses that provide child care 
services, and we can also provide targeted tax credits to stay-at-home 
parents. We can do all of this at once by doing the right thing and 
standing for our children.

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