With a passion for serving the needs of her constituents, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has helped secure over sixty billion dollars for her district through her Congressional service. As the Representative for Texas' 18th Congressional District, the Congresswoman focuses on quality of life issues, including environmental justice, criminal justice, access to healthcare, affordable housing, homelessness, mental health, and mobility.  A champion for the causes of the vulnerable and the at-risk, she wrote the 2018 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act and previously introduced legislation to reduce sentences of those who were subjected to mandatory minimums.
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