[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7450]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   LOOKING FORWARD TO ELECTION SEASON

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, during this season when the American 
people are selecting the next Commander in Chief, I would like to offer 
that this is a time to discuss the issues of economic opportunity, a 
time for discussion of furthering health care, and working to create 
jobs for the American people. This is not the time for the presumptive 
nominee of the Republican Party to call for debates that are frivolous 
and for entertainment.
  We in the United States Congress have to do our jobs. We need to 
confirm the next United States Supreme Court Justice. The Senate needs 
to do its job under the Constitution. We need to pass $1.9 billion for 
the Zika virus because right now 200-plus pregnant women are infected 
with the Zika virus here in the United States of America, and one child 
born with the impact of brain damage, no brain, will cost us $10 
million, $1 million a year.
  It is time now that we respond in a responsible manner, and those who 
are seeking the Presidency of the United States must stop the 
frivolousness and the downgrading of the Constitution and the 
denigrating of the people of the United States of America.
  I look forward to a vigorous debate, and I look forward to an 
election in November befitting the American people.

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