[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 19097-19098]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             PASS DREAM ACT

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, before I start, I would like 
to express my deepest sympathy to the family of Elizabeth Edwards, who 
passed today, a woman who I got to know and who I admire greatly. I 
wish for her family loving memories, and I offer publicly my deepest 
sympathies.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind Members of what opportunity means 
in this country. Opportunity is focused in many ways: equality and 
justice, First Amendment rights, that you can find in the Constitution 
in some way. But education is also an opportunity and a right in this 
country.
  I rise today to support the DREAM Act so that millions of children 
who've lived in this country, speak the language, many of them served 
in the United States military, who are seeking a simple education can 
do so and then, in turn, invest some $1 trillion in contributions to 
America.
  I speak today in tribute to Ms. Martinez, who is on a 28-day hunger 
strike, from San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Martinez, I hope, in your name, 
that we

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will pass the DREAM Act, because you have been willing to sacrifice. We 
should pass the DREAM Act.

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