Says she's ready for headline: 'Congresswoman invites a terrorist' Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, says she has invited Syrian leader Bashar Assad to come to the United States to speak even though his country is designated by the U.S. as a rogue nation and sponsor of terrorism. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas Jackson Lee said Assad so impressed her during her recent terrorism fact-finding mission to Europe and the Middle East she thought he should come to the U.S., the Houston Chronicle reported. "I'm sure someone will write a headline, 'Congresswoman invites a terrorist,'" Jackson Lee said. "But that's not...