Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee
United States Representative, Texas, Democrat
Representative Jackson Lee, of the Eighteenth District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. She served on the Houston City Council from 1990 to 1994. She sits on the following committees: Judiciary; Homeland Security, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection; and Foreign Affairs. The following is from the February 26, 2009, House floor debate on H.R. 1106, the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009. I rise in strong support of H.R. 1106, Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009. I urge my colleagues to support this…