Conservatives mocked Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, for a Monday speech she gave to students at a solar eclipse event where she claimed the moon is a planet largely made of gases. The former ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, misinformed a group of high school students in Houston that the moon is a "planet" that is "made up mostly of gases." Jackson Lee, who once led the House Science ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) says she simply “misspoke” when, in a speech to school children this week, she confidently explained that the moon is “made up mostly of gases.” Speaking at ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stunned attendees at a high school solar eclipse event Monday by claiming the rock-solid moon is a “planet” that is “made up mostly of gases ...

Instead she made a series of absurd statements about the sun and the moon during the April 8 solar eclipse that earned her widespread mockery on social media. The day of the eclipse, Jackson Lee ...

Lee's statements about the moon were incorrect. After the gaffe, she posted on X that she “misspoke” and “meant to say the sun” when referring to gases. On April 8, 2024, U.S. Rep.