Summer Lee

I urge the Department to reverse course, including by dismantling the Federal death chamber in Indiana and advocating for the commutation of the sentences of everyone on Federal death row.

It is shameful that solitary confinement has increased in the Bureau of Prisons during the Biden Administration, despite the President claiming he supports ending it.

In fact, in recent weeks we saw even President Biden's intelligence advisory board make recommendations...

I urge you to take specific steps toward ending mandatory minimums and prosecutory misconduct waivers and actively supporting alternatives to incarceration; funding Federal public defenders; use of clemency power, and reporting on…

None of the Republicans' goals today include solving Americans' problems, of which they are concerned of.

Our children, their children, did not sign up for this.

This preventable border crisis is costing taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

Our Nation is facing an inequality crisis not seen since the Gilded Age. At its core is the unprecedented corporate greed that has inflated prices.

Healthcare is a human right. It is about time we started treating it that way.

It undermines the people's ability to run their government as they choose.

Many States, local jurisdictions depend on resources from the Federal Government to carry out their activities.

I think the issue of a Constitutional Convention is clearly--should be perceived from the perspective of the representation of the American people.

One could say that they've altered Constitutional law, or decisions that were premised on Constitutional law.

It's important, Mr. Spaulding, I'm going to focus on trying not to be redundant but deliberate more with you on this process.

Is it fair to say that America's taxpayers and public lands both stand to benefit from BLM rulemaking and bipartisan policy-making?

My bill, the End Speculative Oil and Gas Leasing Act, would go even further and give this energy and taxpayer-friendly approach the force of law.

Many of my Republican colleagues on this Committee self-identify as Theodore Roosevelt conservationists.

I fully agree that our Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Program has been mismanaged.

I hope my Republican colleagues will stop holding Government funding hostage to their inhumane and ineffective border proposals and instead come to the negotiating table to develop a bipartisan full-year appropriations agreement.

The IRA's investments to fight pollution across the country will not only help improve air quality and preserve a level of future for our children, it will lower energy costs for working families, protect us from the impacts of climate…

I'm very proud that, in both cases, those bills have bipartisan support in this Committee.

I spent a large part of my professional career working on ending the sexual exploitation of children, domestic violence, and human trafficking.

That's why I introduced H.R. 3686, Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution Act, the SHIELD Act.

Because child predators tend to prey on children even when they are in school, Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee introduced H.R. 30, The Stop Human Trafficking in School Zones Act.

The true foundation of this crisis is the ultimate price that is being paid by American families who have lost sons and daughters, brothers and sisters to fentanyl poisoning or children being stolen into human trafficking.