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Congresswoman Carter credits late predecessors Barbara Jordan, Jackson Lee in maiden speech to House

Texas Congresswoman Erica Lee Carter says moments after taking the oath of office to represent Texas' 18th District to replace her late mother Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee that she follows a distinguished line of leaders including Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South elected to Congress, Mickey Leland, who championed global humanitarian causes, Craig Washington, a respected legal expert, and her mother who served as a bridge between civil rights eras, that her mother spoke truth to power whose legislative mastery transformed countless American lives with reforms that resonated from Houston throughout the nation.
Texas Congresswoman Erica Lee Carter says moments after taking the oath of office to represent Texas' 18th District to replace her late mother Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee that she follows a distinguished line of leaders including Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South elected to Congress, Mickey Leland, who championed global humanitarian causes, Craig Washington, a respected legal expert, and her mother who served as a bridge between civil rights eras, that her mother spoke truth to power whose legislative mastery transformed countless American lives with reforms that resonated from Houston throughout the nation.
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