[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11195-11196]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SO MUCH LEFT UNDONE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, so much left undone.
  Our students are crying out. Maybe they're saying, ``Mercy.''
  To avoid this 6.8 percent increase in their rates, putting hundreds 
of thousands of dollars in debt on our college students, Congress must 
act immediately, and we must push and drive those who believe our 
students are not important.
  Undone. The high unemployment of youth. In our meeting with the 
President yesterday, I mentioned the idea that we must construct a 
program that deals with underemployed or unemployed youth, particularly 
those high numbers in our minority community.
  And then, of course, the prevention of youth violence, gun violence, 
that is a crucial issue for all of us. The Congressional Black Caucus 
will be working extensively with the President to help drive 
legislation that will pass reasonable gun violence prevention 
legislation but, more importantly as well, keep our young people alive, 
keep them in school, and, yes, keep them studying, understanding and 
preventing gun violence from making them a victim.

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  This Congress must act now and end sequestration to make sure that 
America is treated well by this Nation.

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