Sheila Jackson Lee tweeted the following:
"May God bless this Nation, and May God bless the urgency of this effort and those Americans who are marching and helping to move H.R. 40 forward."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Sheila Jackson Lee:
"Thank you to the Americans who will be marching to Washington; and expressing their prayers at the White House to bring the Nation's attention to the urgency of implementing H.R. 40 as an Executive Order to begin this important work."Read on Twitter
"introduced for over 30 years in the United States Congress. I have now introduced it again in the 118th Congress as H.R. 40. It is time for this legislation, as a response to the inaction of Nation, to be implemented as an Executive Order by the President of the United States."Read on Twitter
"and then his additional Order by General Granger to free the slaves on June 19, 1865, at Galveston for the States that had refused to acknowledge his order. It is also important to take note that the efforts to restore the lives of the former slaves never prevailed."Read on Twitter
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