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“Trailblazers and tots,” said new Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, a civil rights lawyer now representing a Dallas-area congressional seat, giving a nod to the Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman in Congress, and the importance of supporting children. Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois cited her pregnant mother’s journey as an immigrant from Guatemala crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to give her child a better life.
Among the new members joining Clark was Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who succeeded retired fellow Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson in a Dallas-based district. Crockett was among the Black freshmen to highlight the varied experiences and backgrounds of the caucus.
We, as the members, need to be out front calling this out and explaining it to the everyday American people in a way that they can understand, so then when they hit the ballot box, they’re like, “Dude, those people are crazy.” Like, “They’re the ones that are causing us to have such bad debt, because we know that as they talk about this deficit, listen, y’all should have a conversation with Trump, because we know that 25 percent of this deficit that we’re talking about was approved just in his four years.” But how often are we saying that?
A tour Wednesday of the Tarrant Area Food Bank’s distribution center and its new hub under construction included U.S. House Representative Jasmine Crockett, who was recently sworn in as the Texas District 30 representative.
Crockett serves on the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, a committee with jurisdiction over federal agriculture policy. Responsibilities include the 2023 Farm Bill.
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, may be a politician but she’s not in office for political games.
“I want to make an impact in my community,” says Crockett, who sits on the House Oversight Committee. “That is why I initially got into politics. I could care less for the actual political side of things, but I love people and I love doing everything that I can to make sure that people feel like they have a real and educated voice that will speak up for them.”
“Because without the banking in this country, we know that there have been small minority businesses that have been harmed in a very disproportionate way, so I really want to focus on the money side of things and direct money for the district.
Crockett also said she wanted to focus on home ownership and making housing more affordable for her constituents.
“You have to look at the motivation. ... So many of them are on record saying, basically, `they went after Trump and they went after Trump’s family, so we’re going after Biden’s family,’ " said Crockett, who took office last month.
“It sounds more like retribution” than a justification for unleashing the panel’s vast authority, she said.
However, that’s not how some Democrats see it. The Hill reports that Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas says the committee needs to reinstate the subcommittee, to do otherwise is to send an “unmistakable message to the American people that their civil rights and civil liberties are no longer a priority to the 118th Congress.”
The proposal to reinstate the panel came from Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who pointed at the outcry over Nichols' killing in her defense of the subcommittee. In a Friday statement, Crockett called the dissolution "an abject failure" by the Oversight Committee.
Crockett said she came to voting rights accidentally. When she was a student at the University of Houston Law Center, she was late to sign up for a seminar class “so all of the ‘good ones’ were gone”, she said. She ended up in an election law seminar, and remembers thinking: “What am I going to do with this?”
“Little did I know,” she said. “I always tell people that God had this amazing, beautiful plan that I was definitely not clued in on.”