Summer Lee

So President Buhari has not been able to keep his word that they would be extinguished by December 2015?

There is not a lack in rural areas for places for investment that are legitimate and true.

In this day and time, even with the markets collapsing, that is chump change.

I do not believe this administration is in the business of breaking the law.

If the American people know anything, they understand homeland security.

I feel a little bit uncomfortable to suggest that they are here in the context of breaking the law.

Can you say because of the moral authority vested in you as the State government and the need to give a response, that you would engage and use or argue--or the Governor, who is not here--there should be an empty chair there--but he should…

In hindsight, I think we all share in the responsibility for the crisis in Flint water.

My observation is that the EPA did not display the sense of urgency that the situation demanded.

I have asked the Department of Justice to investigate individuals that may be engaged criminally to hold them criminally responsible for the actions in Flint, Michigan.

I want to ask Mr. Edwards before I pursue a questioning of Mr. Creagh: Mr. Edwards, you have given a recounting of just not putting phosphate in water.

I want us to remain a country of immigrants and laws and to keep our values that we have had that have built this country.

It is our job to counter the negative, the angry, and the wrongheadedness of some public officials who want to condemn the very entity of which this country has been based, a land of immigration and immigrants and a land of laws.

I have always said that the privilege I have of serving, not only in this Congress, but in this committee, which I take very seriously, even more, we are the front lines of security of this Nation.

I thank Chairman McCaul, Ranking Member Thompson, thank you for holding this morning's hearing entitled a 'Crisis of Confidence: Preventing Terrorist Infiltration through U.S. Refugee and Visa Programs.'

I chair the Congressional Pakistan Caucus with my colleague and have done so for more than a decade.

The Ranking Member and myself went down to the border, a summer or two ago, dealing with Central American families that we still maintain were fleeing horrific conditions, persecution.

It is important that the American people understand how intensive a process it truly is.

I have to strain myself to find an incident out of the refugee resettlement program.

I cannot help but wonder, having discovered publicly that this person had been radicalized for 1 or 2 years, as to where we were in that visa vetting program.

I might say that we have been taking refugees in the State of Texas for a very long time.

I want to raise a question about the U visa and those who work with immigrant crime victims.

What are you doing with those families that have basically been documented that they are fleeing murder, pillage, drugs, heinous acts, and they're in detention as opposed to moving through the asylum process?

We should not insert our disagreements on immigration policy into a discussion on agency practice and operations.

This is a vile, unconstitutional, and fascist idea that must be confronted and condemned.