ms. sheila jackson lee. >> thank you. i thank you to the chair and the ranking member. welcome, director morton. thank you for your service and as well let me offer my concern for the officers who were involved in an incident of violence, to their families, and those who were impacted and to their families and your organization. we must always look to thanking those who are on the front lines for us, and i want to make sure i do so. i believe the work you've been doing is very important, but i never come to an immigration hearing, whether it is judiciary that i serve for however long and here in homeland security, and i call both assignments a privilege. what this country needs is real comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not confusing and juxtaposing benefits and the right opportunity for those who want to immigrate to this country and enforcement -- particularly enforcement against those who would want to do us harm. secure communities certainly has its failures and its value. i think it's important that we try to determine what lessons we have learned and h

ms. sheila jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is now recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank, to the speaker. i thank the gentlelady from new york for her distinguished commitment and service to small businesses across america. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to place in the record a letter to the governor of the state of texas from congresswoman sheila jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. jackson lee: just a few minutes ago a colleague rose to the floor and called this socialism. it is not. many have risen to the floor to talk about how this will impact negatively on small business, it will not. i rise enthusiastically to oppose what is a political legislative act, the repeal of the obamacare. it is really the affordable care act. and by the statement of the united states supreme court of which i read, the statement of justice roberts indicated, beginning in 2014 those who do not comply with the mandate must make a shared responsibility payment to the federal government. that is what this is about. sharing and bri

sheila jackson lee, and we yield her two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: i am glad, i thank the gentleman from michigan, and i thank this house, reminded of the declaration of independence that calls upon this great nation to pursue life and liberty with certain inalienable rights. as i paraphrase it. i don't know what the answer is to my friends on the other side . i don't know what the answer is to those who are languishing in the state of texas, when we have our governor rejecting medicaid and politicizing it by in fact, in the obamacare plan the federal government fought to expand medicaid. he says in repeating that the gun to our head has been removed. certainly a personal statement by this governor. i ask him whether or not he has asked 357,000 young people in the state of texas who actually are on insurance plans because of this bill, i wonder has he asked the three million children that have benefited in the state of texas since 2010? boys and girls like these little ones who are seeing doctors now for the first time. what next is the

and i think we are also joined again by our colleague, sheila jackson lee, the gentlelady from texas and i yield her such time. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentlelady for leading us on a very important topic, one i have worked on since i have been in the house. as i look to this side of the house and this sigh, we would all hold to the view that it is important to have one vote, one person and we hold to the view that i have been saying regardless of our ups and downs in the economy, that we do live in the greatest nation in the world. i say it all over in the world. too many great men and women in the united states military, too many great stories of survival and small businesses and family farms. i live in a great state and i see urban america and family farms, small businesses. i get to see ranchers and people who are struggling against drought but still hanging in there. we have, in texas, the potpourri of the nation. i know we live in a great nation and i happen to have the privilege of serving in a district that the honorable barbara jordan first served in. this district wasn't first created before she ser

sheila jackson lee, and we yield her two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. ms.jackson lee: i am glad, i thank the gentleman from michigan, and i thank this house, reminded of the declaration of independence that calls upon this great nation to pursue life and liberty with certain inalienable rights. as i paraphrase it. i don't know what the answer is to my friends on the other side . i don't know what the answer is to those who are languishing in the state of texas, when we have our governor rejecting medicaid and politicizing it by in fact, in the obamacare plan the federal government fought to expand medicaid. he says in repeating that the gun to our head has been removed. certainly a personal statement by this governor. i ask him whether or not he has asked 357,000 young people in the state of texas who actually are on insurance plans because of this bill, i wonder has he asked the three million children that have benefited in the state of texas since 2010? boys and girls like these little ones who are seeing doctors now for the first time. what next is the q