[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12677]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. It really is about justice for all. The 
question becomes as we go into our conferences and caucuses to discuss 
this new debt ceiling legislation: Who will this help?
  Will it help the small businesses, which are the backbone of America? 
Will it help the students who are now standing at the doors of colleges 
and seeing them slam shut? Will it help those in nursing homes who now, 
because of drastic cuts in Medicaid, will see their places of abode 
lost? Will it help the hospitals, which care for the sick, because 
there is no Medicare reimbursement or Medicaid?
  We are going to be looking at this to see how it helps or hurts the 
American people; but I tell you who it helps: big businesses. Are they 
going to now step in and create jobs? Because, when we cut across the 
board, public sector jobs will be cut all across America.
  It has always been the government that stoops and comes in to raise 
the American people up when there is a need. Are we going to help the 
returning soldiers, 160,000-plus, who have PTSD? For those who want to 
come into the workplace, will the corporate sector now stand up and be 
counted?
  Will only the friends of the Republicans be helped and not the poor 
and working Americans--where is the justice for all. That's where we 
needed bipartisanship on something that has already been done a hundred 
times: the simple raising of the debt ceiling; instead we have put the 
burden now on the backs of those who cannot speak for themselves.

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