[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14600]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        STANDING UP FOR AMERICA

  (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, this Nation has a great history, and I 
would ask the question: What would Franklin Delano Roosevelt do, 
President Eisenhower, or Ronald Reagan, or John F. Kennedy, when a 
question from someone in the room attacked and presented a negative 
attitude about Muslims or Catholics or those in the Jewish faith or 
Protestant?
  Well, it happened in a townhall meeting of a Presidential candidate. 
This person thought that they were maligning and deriding the President 
of the United States when they called him Muslim and that he was not a 
citizen; yet no voice rang out in this townhall meeting to oppose that 
heinous and horrific attitude toward individuals of the Muslim faith, 
who actually have fought on behalf of the flag of the United States of 
America. We malign no people for a general issue that all of us know we 
are all against, the world family is against.
  Now, I ask this Congress to likewise fund this government because the 
last time, when the Republicans shut the government down in 2013, we 
lost $24 billion.
  Because you are denying women health care, you now want to defund the 
government and, at the same time, keep jobs away from the American 
people by not reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank.
  Not only were 300 jobs lost, but 400 jobs may be lost by a 
businessman in Kenya who was waiting for the Export-Import Bank. He is 
an American, and he had 400 jobs.
  I say, Mr. Speaker, stop the foolishness. Act like the history of 
this Nation, and stand up for what is right.

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