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Self-described ‘tough lady’ Sheila Jackson Lee dead at 74
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a 15-term Democrat from Houston who whose record includes being the chief House sponsor of the 2021 resolution making Juneteenth a federal holiday, died on Friday at the age of 74. A survivor of breast cancer, she revealed in June …