Lucille Roybal-Allard

Let's follow both the letter and the spirit of the law.

I find this not only disturbing because there are alternatives to detention that are less costly and more humane and dignified.

For a long time one of the things that has troubled me is the overuse of psychotropic drugs in our foster care system.

We have heard from child welfare specialists time and time again that this kind of restrictive setting like Homestead is extremely harmful to the children.

Let me begin by thanking Speaker Pelosi for making the Dream and Promise Act one of the top 10 Democratic priorities for the people and the Judiciary Committee for all their hard work on this bill. As coauthor of H.R. 6, I rise in strong…

Let me begin by thanking my cosponsors, Nydia Velazquez and Yvette Clarke, Judiciary Chairman Nadler, Chairman Lofgren, the Judiciary Committee, and especially Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for the extraordinary work they did in bringing…

I recently introduced the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act, which will continue the important work of the original bill and expand its critical programs to improve infant health across the United States. Every year…

ICE should prioritize removal efforts on those with serious criminal histories, not those who have lived and worked peacefully in our communities for decades.

We witnessed migrants continuing to be held in inhumane conditions.

The issue is that ICE has been going into communities, arresting people who are dropping their children off at school.

This administration's politicization of border security and heartless obsession with aggressive immigration enforcement are un-American and unacceptable.

Yet these posts continued, and it appears that there is a subculture among agents that has been allowed to propagate because the agency has been too tolerant of this small but pervasive subculture.

One of the things that I find very concerning is that despite the guidance exempting vulnerable populations from placement in the Migrant Protection Protocols Program, we have been made aware that pregnant women and LGBT migrants have…

I guess what I am trying to find out is what is the weakness in the system that has made it--that has allowed, in these cases, for vulnerable populations to in fact be returned to Mexico?

As chair of this subcommittee, I am committed to ensuring the integrity of our borders and strengthening our immigration system.

We have serious concerns about ICE's ability to manage its budget within the means provided by Congress.

I have the honor of serving as chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. The subcommittee is charged with overseeing the funding of our Nation's longest continuous seagoing service, the United States Coast…

the Pell Grant is the cornerstone of our national commitment to make higher education accessible and affordable, but the purchasing of Pell Grants has significantly dropped over the years, covering only about 30 percent of the cost of…

So you are actually disagreeing with your own Department's recommendation and the Commission that you co-chaired?

We use the scientific basis to get people who are anti-vaccination... to provide them with what sound evidence-based data.

if your Department were to do due diligence, not only in terms of oversight but in working to reclaim that $1,000,000,000, programs such as the Special Olympics, there would be no need or excuse for eliminating that and other important…

Let me just say that in your testimony you highlighted the fact that unemployment was down among disadvantaged groups, and I would venture to say that one of the reasons that is true is because of the programs that you now have in place…

I am introducing a bill called the CARE Act to see what we can do to better protect those children.

Students may be better served by being in larger classes if by hiring fewer teachers a district or state can better compensate those who have demonstrated high-quality and outstanding results.

I happen to believe that this would help the problem by realigning incentives for generics to come to market sooner.