Sheila Jackson Lee

WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after his bipartisan bill with U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) to make Juneteenth a federal...
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate election integrity org True the Vote and its associated Tea Party group, King Street Patriots, immediately before the IRS and DOJ...
Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is being sued by a former staffer who claims that Lee was abusive to her and showed no regard for her disability.I could have told you that she doesn’t treat her staff well just from...
Tonight, President Barack Obama will address a joint session of Congress to deliver his constitutionally required State of the Union Report. I will be "investing" some time along with most of you and looking for points to...
While Sunday, January 9th, is my birthday, celebrating and watching the NFL Playoffs was not the order of business in Arizona. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is only one year older than me, and on Saturday she was shot....
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -  Mark TwainTexas has nine Congressmen who managed to survive the “shellacking” by the GOP vote. SHEILA JACKSON LEE District...
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Early voting across Texas has closed with record numbers of voters (for a non-presidential election) taking the option to vote early.  In Houston over 450,000 voted early or by mail.  It is estimated that over 65% of the...
With all the recent news about congressional ethics scandals surrounding Representatives Charlie Rangle (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA) and now Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), the question comes back to mind: Who paid for Sheila...
In normal years, Republicans vote Republican, Democrats vote Democrat and Libertarians vote Libertarian. These are not normal times. Our nation faces serious economic and socials issues that need to be addressed by...
The House Democrats passed yet another bailout bill, H.R. 1586, the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act Tuesday. According to Reuters:The bill will give states, hard-hit by the U.S. economic downturn, $16 billion more...
Thank God our Congress has solved all of the massive problems facing this country so that we can now worry about what to do about artifact piracy... ON THE MOON! Yes, it seems scandal-ridden Congresswoman Eddie Bernice...
Harris County taxpayers should consider a trip to the beautiful Texas “pink granite” capitol Tuesday to testify at the House education committee in favor of Rep. Debbie Riddle’s HB945 that would save Harris County taxpayers...
Somewhere along the road of last years move and this years redistricting debacle, I went from being represented in Congress by John Culberson to Sheila Jackson Lee to Ted Poe and now, thanks to some federal judges in San...
Although the House recently voted 245-189 for HR 2, 'Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law,' it is still humorous to watch Sheila Jackson Lee's (CD-18) attempt to prove that the health care reform bill itself wasn't...
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The University of Houston played host to a public hearing by the Texas House/Senate Redistricting Committees on Saturday, November 20. Nearly 200 members of the public and a few concerned Members of Congress showed up to...
Results for the 18th Congressional District of the Texas General Election between Democratic incumbent Sheila Jackson Lee and Republican John Faulk:
I know the stealing of campaign signs happens all the time and both sides do it from time to time (although we ALL know Dems do it all the time and it is just the rare, overzealous Republican volunteers that might, maybe,...
A couple weeks ago, Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) held a press conference in order to flaunt the passage of yet another bailout bill, H.R. 1586, the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, by the House Democrats. ...
The 18th Congressional District has an interesting and colorful history. The first vote cast by its original representative John Jones was to approve the Declaration of War against Germany beginning World War I. Other...
Many consider the Heights to be the stronghold of the Democrats in the Houston political scene. But this past weekend, 19th Street in the Heights (Home of Sheila Jackson Lee's district office) turned into the scene of a...

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