[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15582-15583]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE PUBLIC GOOD

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, first, I want to acknowledge that this 
is World AIDS Day, and much of the success has come because of public 
funding. That is why I rise today, to talk about the public good and 
the responsibility of the President and his Cabinet members to do the 
public good.
  I remember when President Clinton was in and generated a major 
surplus in our budget, 22 million jobs, pursuant to the 1997 budget. We 
also recognized that the next administration generated enormous tax 
cuts, low job creation, and a seismic debt that was created because of 
those tax cuts to the 1 percent.
  Now, today, we have the toxicity of two billionaires who head the 
Treasury Department: the ``King of Foreclosures,'' forced foreclosures, 
and the other who will head the no-job-creating Commerce Department by 
this individual.
  Rather than supporting full employment or creating jobs, everything 
will be for the big pockets of the big corporations, not the pockets of 
the working families, like my constituents.
  So I raise the question to Mr. Trump: Where are the appointees that 
are going to work for the public good? Where are the individuals that 
are going to have the sufficient wisdom to provide the funding that 
will support

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continued work on stifling out and snuffing out HIV/AIDS? Where are 
those that are going to listen to the people?
  This toxic brand has to stop.

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