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September 30, 2014

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Senior Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement regarding the recent security breaches at the White House:

September 30, 2014

September 23, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee released the following statement today after the Department of Health and Human Services announced $479,991 in grant awards to the University of Houston for their project entitled "Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training for Professionals and Paraprofessionals":

August 28, 2014

Houston, TX –Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement today at the rally and press conference organized by the Houston Lawyers Association demanding justice for Robbie Tolan, a young unarmed African American male who was shot and seriously injured by a Bellaire Police Department officer in the driveway of his home even

August 26, 2014

Houston, TX –Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement today at the rally and press conference organized by the Houston Lawyers Association demanding action to stem the epidemic of unarmed African American males being the victims of lethal force by police departments across the country:

August 19, 2014

Washington, D.C. –Today, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (MI-13) released the following statement in relation to their joint request to Attorney General Eric H. Holder which urged the U.S.

August 7, 2014

"Mickey Leland was a humble but larger than life man who humbled himself to find the most impoverished and the neediest and worked to make the pathway of their life better. He was a man who sought to make the pathways of those unknown to him better than the misery in which he found them.

August 6, 2014

HOUSTON– Today, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement today marking the 49th anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act signed by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965:

July 31, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Senior Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement today after the House Republicans failed to bring up a Supplemental bill that would address the humanitarian crisis at our southern border:

July 29, 2014

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Ranking Member of House Homeland Security Committee's Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee, and Founder and Co-Chair of the House Children's Caucus, released the following statement after introducing the "Securing Assistance for Victims of Exploitation Act of 201