[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14849]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             FIGHTING EBOLA

  (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, I thought it was extremely important to 
rise today to congratulate the President on recognizing the crucialness 
of the fight against this horrific disease Ebola in Africa.
  I have been in Africa over the last 4 or 5 months. Ebola is 
devastating to the West African countries. They have been fighting on 
their own, but it has been recognized that they do not have the 
infrastructure to be able to contain the disease. We are sending 3,000 
of our men and women of the United States military but, as equally 
important, we are providing for the self-made hospital containers that 
can be utilized to provide the infrastructure for these countries to be 
able to fight Ebola.
  There is no medical system existing now because everyone is fighting, 
and therefore everyone is, in essence, ensuring that the illness is not 
taken care of. This is a crisis. We need to be engaged, and we need to 
fight against Ebola so it can be extinguished and the people in Africa 
can get back to their lives again.

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