[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4907-4908]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HOUSTON FLOOD VICTIMS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, just a few days ago in Harris County, 
in Houston, and in my congressional district and many other places, 
again, the State of Texas experienced a terrible rain. It was not a 
hurricane and it was not a tornado, but it was a downpouring of 20 
inches-plus of rain. Our bayous overran, people were standing on 
furniture, babies had to be rescued, and people died.
  Today, I want to call the names of seven people who died untimely in 
this terrible, terrible storm. Next week, I will ask my colleagues to 
stand with me for a minute of silence, but I wanted in this week to 
call their names. They were mothers and fathers, truck drivers, 
mechanical engineers, teachers. They were Americans, they were 
Houstonians, they were Texans, and, unfortunately, they died.
  The government must work better to ensure that there are flashing 
lights on underpasses and toward many other solutions. We look forward 
to the declaration of disaster to help the people remaining.
  My sympathy to their families: German Antonio Franco, Claudia Melgar, 
Sunita Vikas Malhara, Pedro Rascon Morales, Charles Edward Odom, Suresh 
Kumar Talluri, Teri White Rodriguez.

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  Mr. Speaker, may they rest in piece. God bless their families in this 
terrible, terrible time.

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