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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1093527" data-attributes="member: 1246">Between what years was she a slave ????Who owned her?????Shameless.Via <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/282825-house-dem-on-spending-cuts-were-at-the-bone-almost#ixzz2KnTBs9MA" target="_blank">The Hill</a>:. . . Jackson Lee suggested lawmakers should take inspiration from President Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War.
“I stand here as a freed slave because this Congress came together. Are we going to be able to do it today to free America?”

Jackson Lee was one of a handful of Democrats who took to the House floor to warn that the $85 billion in cuts to 2013 spending in the sequester, due to take place in March, would devastate people who rely on government services
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1093527, member: 1246"] Between what years was she a slave ???? Who owned her????? Shameless. Via [URL="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/282825-house-dem-on-spending-cuts-were-at-the-bone-almost#ixzz2KnTBs9MA"]The Hill[/URL]: [INDENT]. . . Jackson Lee suggested lawmakers should take inspiration from President Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War. [B]“I stand here as a freed slave because this Congress came together.[/B] Are we going to be able to do it today to free America?” Jackson Lee was one of a handful of Democrats who took to the House floor to warn that the $85 billion in cuts to 2013 spending in the sequester, due to take place in March, would devastate people who rely on government services [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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