On issues from reparations to impeachment, House Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee looks to the example of her mentor and predecessor, Barbara Jordan.
While the walls of Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee's large Washington, D.C., office are covered floor to ceiling with photographs, there is one that the 69-year-old Democrat is particularly proud of. It shows Jackson Lee shaking hands with Barbara Jordan, who, at the time of the photo, was a retired congresswoman teaching at the University of Texas.
Jordan, who died in 1996, is perhaps best remembered for the dramatic speech she gave before the committee on July 25, 1974, on proposed articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. With what she calls Jordan's"seal of approval," Jackson Lee was elected in 1994 and began serving in 1995. The freshman lawmaker also found herself with a seat on the Judiciary Committee."I didn't ask—I was told that the Judiciary Committee was my assignment," Jackson Lee says."And I took that to be a special challenge for me to live up to her reputation."
Jackson Lee isn't itching to impeach President Trump."There should be an apprehension [of] impeachment because it means it's out of the regular order," she says."It means it's taking away a familiar face, a familiar leader."
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