Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

H.R.4586 — AIDA intends to reverse course and instead focus on incentivizing and leveraging on the nearly 100 billion of dollars that Haitian, African and Caribbean Americans send home each year to build sustainable partnerships and…

today Republicans are jamming through a reckless bill that would wreak havoc on south Florida. In response, I introduced a series of commonsense amendments to protect American families. Over the past few weeks, multiple hospitals…

This decision will jeopardize our national security and significantly affect and damage the economies of numerous communities nationwide.

The abrupt removal of these workers would have an immense and irreparable impact on businesses across the country and our economy at large.

Our hearing this afternoon touches on topics that are old and new to our subcommittee, data privacy and the integration of artificial intelligence or AI at VA.

In an ever growing and ever connected digital world our attention in matters of data privacy and budding technology is more important than ever.

I look forward to hearing about VA's current and future efforts to protect veterans' data as a result of these breaches.

I am interested in hearing from VA how they intend to utilize these tools while protecting veterans private and health information and Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Are you aware of the State of the government in Haiti, that there really is no government right now and that the gangs are actually taking over the country?

This situation in this hearing is personal to me being one of the only Haitian Americans in Congress.

the assumptions that you're making and trying to say that they are opportunists and saying that the Biden Administration is actually abusing its humanitarian parole privileges are actually false

But what I want to explain to you is that right now with the State of Haiti and how it is right now with no government and the gangs are actually running the country there is no difference between the dictator and what they're suffering…

One of my concerns is, you know, I am trained as a lawyer. I did not have a healthcare background when I got into healthcare, but one of the basic things that we do is to understand the healthcare system.

We need to do what we can to cutoff any source of funding for the terrorist-supporting, human-rights-violating Iranian regime.

Our problems lie with the Iranian regime, not the Iranian people.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, for holding this hearing today, ensuring that we can connect our veterans to economic opportunities and also examine any of the blockades.

I believe that women's rights are human rights.

that we most certainly know that climate change is real, and we are feeling the effects...

IT modernization is mandatory, not optional. It is in everyone's interest to finally do this in a way that does not upset veterans and employees and waste billions of dollars.

We remain closed for businesses to many who would be buyers and exhibitors who not only spend money at these conferences and trade shows.

Wait times for visitor visa appointments currently exceed 180 days in 70 U.S. embassies and consulates around the world.

A common thread identified was a fundamental lack of planning, budgeting, and adherence to contracting best practices by VA and its contracting centers.

These sites have born the brunt VA's to properly manage this project from the very beginning and we owe them our focus.

I wholeheartedly support the VA's decision to delay any further go lives while they fix the issue at five sites currently live on the Cerner system.