[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1105]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING RELIEF FOR AMERICANS THROUGH THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today on the floor of the 
House the Members had to address a number of crises that this Nation is 
facing. It is interesting that we face delay and, if you will, 
obstruction on many of the issues that the American people want us to 
be engaged in.
  I am hoping that the economic stimulus package will move as quickly 
as possible, and when it comes back in its final form from the Senate 
and conference, that we will be assured that the individuals who are 
disabled and on Social Security also get a rebate, and that we have the 
sense of the Congress language that a moratorium should be in place for 
all of those individuals subject to subprime loans or on the brink of 
foreclosure and losing their homes. We must forge a pathway for the 
financial industry to begin to allow people to reconstruct their loans.
  Lastly, we voted today to extend FISA. The bill that we passed out of 
the Judiciary Committee under John Conyers' leadership is a good bill. 
I voted reluctantly for the extension, but we must pass a bill that 
protects civil rights and protects the national security of America.

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