Karen Bass

The FAA SoCal Metroplex project has dramatically changed flight paths into Los Angeles International Airport, effectively cramming traffic from a six-lane highway in the sky into a single lane. Constituents in my district now have…

I also want to thank Representative Yoho for your leadership on this bill

Thank you for your leadership in bringing a bipartisan bill that I think is really going to make a difference

Human trafficking--modern-day slavery--is taking place in many places in the world.

slave auctions and forced labor are absolutely unacceptable and that human rights of migrants and refugees demand the attention of the United States and the international community

Mexico and Canada are not just neighbors but they are key allies, economic and security partners, and the United States' top tourist-generating countries.

these kinds of soft diplomatic initiatives can help reaffirm important relationships with our allies.

This concept poses the question of whether developing countries are mortgaging their resources and strategic assets to China.

I hope that our discussion today will shed light on the fact that U.S. companies can and should be doing business in Africa.

I am very much concerned about that as well, especially with regard to labor, given the need for employment on the continent and the recurring disputes about wages and the treatment of workers.

I think that if we looked at ways to strengthen the private sector contacts between nonsanctioned economic entities in Zimbabwe, and commercial entities here, you create a stronger middle class, which is a little harder to intimidate and…

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and ditto to the words that you just said about our chairman and his long history of support for Africa.

if we continue to not make this a high priority issue, and not communicate that this is a high priority issue, one that is really the top of the agenda and we will take action

We take respect for the First Amendment very seriously.

I want our community to participate, but we cannot participate if it is not really clear, where the FBI is coming from.

I appreciate your questions about NGOs. I am hoping that somewhere down the line we can look at how we do foreign assistance.

I want to know if part of the follow-up from our meeting is if you are considering retracting that category of Black identity extremists.

I have to tell them that they cannot speak to the FBI.

We all know that the title of this hearing is 'Advancing Human Rights to Combat Extremism.'

Of course, we need to have religious freedom. But I think about, in some of the places that we have been talking about today we can have all the religious freedom in the world, but if people don't have food, if people don't have a way to…

I am deeply concerned at the departures that I hear of so many people leaving the State Department.

We have to think about what drives people to become extremists in the first place.

So you should know that there is a lot of concern in the community, especially from organizations such as Black Lives Matter.

A palace coup might take place in Kabila. This is not unknown in the DRC.

I am not convinced that that does not mean that Kabila won't be on the ballot until we hear definitively a public announcement that he will not seek a third term.