Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee
Representative, Texas, Democrat
Rep. Jackson Lee has represented Texas’ 18th Congressional District since 1995 and serves on the following committees: Judiciary; Homeland Security; and Budget. Here’s what she said on the House floor on June 21, 2023, during a debate over federal student loan reform. This is not about deadbeat persons. This is about the excessive overburdening of our students in the 21st century who have been enrolled in schools with excessive fees and tuition. This was not bureaucrats making decisions. This was an analytic assessment of how heavy a burden it is on working persons with student debt. They were not able…