[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13323]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        END SCHOOL VIOLENCE NOW

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, just last week, the beginning of the 
school year, in Houston, Texas, we experienced an enormous tragedy in 
the loss of a young man due to school violence inside one of Houston's 
Harris County high schools.
  I rise today to extend sympathy to the family of Joshua Broussard and 
his friends, teachers, parents, and administrators, for it is an 
unspeakable act to have an incident that causes children to fear the 
very place where they should be safe and secure. I and all of our 
elected officials and law enforcement have already offered their 
commitment and time to work with the young people to restore their 
faith in the sanctity and security of schools, but, more importantly, 
to speak to the issue of bullying, to speak to the issue of violence, 
and to work with the parents to be able to say that violence in 
America's schools must end. We must also end it in terms of knives and 
guns. Children must feel loved.
  And so to Spring ISD, we look forward to coming to your school 
district and standing with the children to ensure that they know that 
there are those in the United States Congress like my good friend, Mr. 
Hoyer, and others that have stood against school violence and will 
stand together to ensure that our children can learn and are safe.

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