[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3254]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              BUILD TRUST

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Homeland Security 
Committee and one who was in a security briefing this morning, I cannot 
celebrate more to the brave men and women of the Department of Homeland 
Security that many of us stood up collectively together as Americans 
and provided for full funding. Let me thank them for their service.
  Let me move on. Yesterday, another very provocative and important 
action was done. The Department of Justice report came out regarding 
the city of Ferguson, where it found that Blacks account for 85 percent 
of traffic stops, 90 percent of tickets issued, and 93 percent of 
arrests.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not about Ferguson, though many are trying to 
heal--and we offer sympathy again to Michael Brown's family--but it is 
about America. I call upon my Republican friends and Democratic 
friends. We act on facts. These are facts that are probably implicated 
across America.
  I have introduced the Build TRUST bill. I hope we can come together 
to find a way, both in terms of our law enforcement and making sure 
that they go home to their families, but also have a just and fair 
pattern, if you will, of treating the citizens of every hamlet and town 
and city and State in this Nation. We owe that to our beliefs in the 
Constitution, Mr. Speaker.
  I encourage a bipartisan effort to look at how we can address these 
questions across America. We deserve that as Americans.

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