Casket arrives for the funeral of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee in Houston

Описание: (1 Aug 2024)
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Houston - 1 August 2024
1. Various of casket arriving at Fallbrook Church for the funeral of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
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The hearse bearing the casket of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee arrived early Thursday at the Houston church where her funeral will be held.

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver the eulogy for Jackson Lee at Fallbrook Church in North Houston later Thursday afternoon as days of memorials for the longtime Democratic lawmaker draw to a close.

Jackson Lee was 74 when she died on July 19 after being treated for pancreatic cancer.

Harris, a former California senator, said in a statement after her death that she was “one of our nation’s fiercest, smartest, and most strategic leaders in the way she thought about how to make progress happen.”

The Democrat had represented her Houston-based district and the nation’s fourth-largest city since 1995. She previously had breast cancer and announced the pancreatic cancer diagnosis on June 2.

Before being elected to Congress, Jackson Lee served on Houston’s city council from 1990 to 1994.

After first being elected, Jackson Lee quickly established herself as a fierce advocate for women and minorities and a leader for House Democrats on many social justice issues, from policing reform to reparations for descendants of enslaved people. She led the first rewrite of the Violence Against Women Act in nearly a decade, which included protections for Native American, transgender and immigrant women.

Jackson Lee routinely won reelection to Congress with ease. She unsuccessfully ran to be Houston’s mayor last year.

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