[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15932]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     MERCY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, over the past 16 days, many of us have 
risen to this floor and pleaded with our friends on the other side of 
the aisle and asked for mercy, not mercy for our individual selves as 
Members of Congress, but mercy for the American people, for the 800,000 
over the past 16 days who have lost their jobs in furloughs, for the 
$300 million a day that this Nation has lost. This is the very answer 
to those who are suggesting that we are spending too much money, Mr. 
Speaker: we have lost money.
  But today I come humbly to plead with my friends to do as the 
Chaplain mentioned this morning, to have a generosity of spirit and 
recognize that we can come together. Let the voices of common sense 
recognize that States like Mississippi, Louisiana, Arizona, South 
Dakota, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, Montana, Georgia, New York, and 
Wyoming--States that represent so many--are losing so much because they 
get the most money from this Nation.
  Then let us recognize Juanita Davis with little Tu'Nita, 10 days old, 
who is fearful that her WIC money, Women, Infant, and Children money, 
in the State of Texas is running out. I am pleading that we come 
together with common sense and generosity of spirit and put this bill 
on the President's desk.

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