[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Pages 25522-25523]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN IN AMERICA

  (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 thought I would reflect this 
evening on the needs of our children in America. Today we just debated 
a legislative initiative to attempt to respond to the health care needs 
of our children. The good news was the House bill understood that money 
was the answer to the uninsured children, $50 billion. We didn't quite 
get there. But I am committed to coming back so that all children can 
be insured, legal immigrants who have a right to be here and are 
documented, their children can be insured. But we have to fight this 
battle. My question to the President is: Do you care?
  And then I want to say to this Congress, another young man is 
languishing in a jail in Jena, Louisiana. It is time to free Mychel 
Bell, someone who was inappropriately charged as an adult. He is 
representing thousands of young people wrongly prosecuted, minority 
young people, who have not been able to find justice.
  So to this Congress, help us free Mychel Bell and the Jena 6. Enough 
is enough.

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