[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13105-13106]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WORKING TOGETHER FOR SOLUTIONS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, the American people want us to work 
together. You can poll any one of them that is coming through these 
halls as tourists, as Americans, and I know they want us to work 
together.
  I think it is important that we announce to the American people that 
we will immediately get rid of sequester and stop the laying off of 
valuable Defense Department workers and Health and Human Services 
workers, people

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who help generate the economy because of the work that they do in 
places beyond the beltway, government workers who are servants of the 
people.
  We need to get rid of sequester and begin to fund those child care 
seats that have been lost, those Meals on Wheels, and Medicare 
resources for our seniors. We need to stop playing around with the 
budget.
  We need to insist that the bills of the American people be paid 
through raising the debt ceiling, and not in an angry manner, but 
recognizing our responsibilities.
  We know that the NSA has been looked at. I stand here as someone who 
will stand on behalf of the civil liberties and civil rights of 
Americans. I have introduced an intelligence bill to review the 
enormous number of contractors that are being used to give top secret 
credibility and, as well, to do our outsourcing of our work.
  I have introduced a bill dealing with the FISA Court, to release the 
FISA Court opinions, because I believe it is important for the American 
people to know and be protected in their civil liberties.
  Finally, ObamaCare is one that I am proud to be supporting because it 
helps small businesses. It helps those who don't have care, and it 
provides for young people to have health coverage. ObamaCare serves the 
American people.

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