[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       GOOD THINGS AND BAD THINGS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, today we will have an opportunity to 
support the Export-Import Bank opening so that constituents across 
America, including Houston, Texas, will have the opportunity to grow 
jobs and to compete internationally. That is a good thing, Mr. Speaker.
  Soon I hope we will be able to reopen Riverside Hospital in my 
congressional district with the collaboration and work with Health and 
Human Services and State authorities to open the doors for those who 
need health care. That is a good thing.
  Mr. Speaker, the showing of a video of a student being dragged out of 
a classroom violently while educators stand by and watch is a bad 
thing. It calls upon the Justice Department of that State, the Attorney 
General, and the local district attorney to stand up and be counted. It 
also calls upon the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether the 
civil rights of that student were violated.
  Not one American should be able to tolerate the heinous, horrific, 
violent actions of throwing a young girl student on the floor, up 
against the door, dragged as if she were a bag of potatoes. No one 
should tolerate that.
  Mr. Speaker, I call upon everyone to address the conditions in 
schools and violence along with those who are perpetrating these acts 
against students.

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