[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2319]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 CONSIDERING THE NEEDS OF ALL AMERICANS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I proudly, over the last 2 days, voted 
for a temporary extension of the small business tax exemption and the 
food inventory charitable exemption because I realize that America has 
many needs that have to be addressed, food stamps that have been denied 
to many people with a $40 billion cut in the last Congress by my 
friends on the other side of the aisle. I realize that if we continue 
in the mode of a permanent tax exemption, where will the funding come 
from? Social Security? Medicare? Medicaid?--a variety of needs that our 
community has.
  So today I want to make sure that the $1.5 trillion debt that we 
have, that is now $440 billion, that we continue to be responsible and 
be concerned about our children's education and about health care and 
about many other things. So today we must stand, considering all the 
needs of Americans.
  Finally, let me say that I represent an area that is trying to 
protect Freedmen's Town bricks laid or bought for by freed slaves. I 
believe we should come together in the city of Houston with our 
Freedmen's Town coalition and those citizens in that area and let's 
resolve this. Let's do trenching, preserve the bricks, and provide a 
quality infrastructure program that I have helped fund by Federal 
dollars.

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