Brenda Lawrence

Any efforts to prevent a witness from testifying in front of Congress is against the law.

I just want to put on the record, as being a Black American and having endured the public comments of racism from the sitting President...

I think we have a very serious problem in this country.

What are you going to do to promote and be part of educating people on hate crimes, for being proactive?

So when you say it is a priority, I want to know what does a priority--how does things change in the Department?

Can you tell me, you said he has made it a priority, what actions does that result in?

Representation matters, particularly given the complex nature of immigration law.

We must have safe, clean, and affordable drinking water to live, and I am very concerned when you start talking about reducing that funding.

If we continue to just address rural, we are going to have an even greater problem.

Your tilt, it appears, towards rural projects, discounts the significant needs of urban communities, like those in my district.

The TIGER grants, which we now call a bill, has proven to be a successful cost-saving, cost-effective program.

I disagree with your philosophy. Thank you, and I yield back.

As a native Detroiter like myself, born and raised and educated in the city, affordable housing in the HUD budget is extremely important to me...

It is critical that this nation's security--for our nation security, that the TSA have a personnel system in place that protects whistleblowers from retaliation.

If TSA employees are reluctant to raise these security deficiencies they observe, couldn't that put aviation security at risk?

Great innovation is not solely in the hands of Congress. It has to have all hands on deck.

It is, for me, a giant failure if we are going to be behind the eight ball, all the technology is ready.

I represent Detroit. I represent the Motor City. I have GM as the world headquarters.

The concerted effort to suppress the vote is real, it's been documented, and it's a concerted effort of Russia.

It's unacceptable, because our vote is our democracy.

Of particular concern, the indictments show how the Russians tried to suppress the votes of minorities across the United States in order to help the current President win his Presidency.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

We are going to have to look past our bias that if you are poor you don't belong in this industry.

We've spent almost 5 hours here of this esteemed body which I am a Member of to discuss tapes of Hillary Clinton when we know that we have a humanitarian issue happening in our country that we need to resolve.

I do not want a slippery slope that this President is immune to anyone not agreeing with him.