[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14352]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     QUESTIONS FOR TONIGHT'S DEBATE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, the good news of this place is a 
congratulations offered by my colleague just a few minutes ago to a 90-
year-old lady who served in World War II and had never received a thank 
you.
  Wouldn't it be a positive step to reflect on America and to be able 
to hold in this body positive things that shows the Congress working 
together? Yet, as has been mentioned, our colleagues want to defund 
Planned Parenthood and shut down the government.
  I wonder whether or not, in this debate coming up, that any of the 
moderators will ask whether any of those debating will stand in 
shutting down the government. I wonder whether they will ask them 
whether they support voting rights and will support the restoration of 
the Voting Rights Act, like the Americans who walked 1,000 miles for 
justice.
  I wonder whether or not, in fact, they would ask them whether they 
care anything about criminal justice reform and decriminalizing, if you 
will, this system where it has mass incarceration, children in jail, 
where it doesn't believe in rehabilitation for those who have served.
  I wonder whether these individuals that have been making a lot of 
noise in front of the public who will be in the public eye all over 
America, Mr. Speaker, whether they will answer the real questions about 
America and bring us together.
  Voting rights, health care for women, and making sure that we fix the 
criminal justice system, those are the questions that should be asked 
tonight.

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