Summer Lee

The question becomes the choice and use of resources.

Last Congress, I introduced H.R. 48, the 'No Fly For Foreign Fighters Act.'

The purpose of the hearing is to examine the current status of the changes to the terror threat landscape as ISIS continues to lose ground in Syria and Iraq and foreign fighters begin to return to their home countries.

Today's hearing allows Members of the task force to examine the current status of the changes to the terror threat landscape as ISIS continues to lose ground in Syria and Iraq and foreign fighters begin to return to their home countries.

We need to be looking at those who may potentially come from the fight, start the fight here, because our idea is to protect the homeland.

Let me be very clear. A lot of resources are now being used to follow the tracks of the Russian connection, the Russian collusion, children of Donald Trump having conversations with known affiliates of the Kremlin.

Acting agency heads may be career officials with substantial expertise, but they are generally not empowered to implement new policies and initiatives.

I think that is an element that is equally important because now who is going to catch them at the border's edge on our border.

The fall of Mosul and likely of Raqqa won't be the end of the Islamic State.

I want to acknowledge, as I put this in the record, Senator John Whitmire and former Senator Rodney Ellis from Texas who helped move Texas forward in juvenile justice reform.

I look forward to working with you, Mr. Chairman, and others on this.

Mr. Chairman, thank you and if I might, just thank you and all the members who came and the witnesses.

They are not at a 50-State level where all of them are doing juvenile justice reform.

I want to join the aspirational goal. I would like to say it is one that we could have for tomorrow, which is to question and maybe remove this structure of a juvenile justice system.

Something that we in the Federal Government should consider.

So, the lesson is put in more, give them the services, and you are saving, steering lives?

$90,000 for incarceration.

Your testimony will be so helpful, and I hope that this committee can begin immediately passing out a number of legislative initiatives crafted around what you have offered.

I want to say to the attorney general, his recent memo that takes away prosecutorial discretion from persecutors...

I want the audience to know that we feel very important today because we have the chairman of the full committee and the ranking member of the full committee at the criminal justice committee.

I think we have been speaking about that for a very long period of time.

I would hope that that we can begin that post haste, and also I hope that we can secure from the Justice Department the many documents that we have asked for.

Each of us on this panel, regardless of party, are committed to eliminating wasteful spending.

The Justice Department is there for them in a myriad of ways.

So this is a disappointing budget. You are being a good soldier to the director, but you are being a good soldier and you are squeezing and picking and nitpicking and squeezing here and taking here. It is an absolute outrage, and I will…