Summer Lee

I am requesting that George Bush Intercontinental Airport be included on the list of airports to receive the enhanced Ebola screening protocols.

I want to thank all these gentleman. I am stepping away for an airplane. I want to give my appreciation and thanks.

The best thing that we can do to fight Ebola is to fight Ebola at its source overseas before it gets here.

So it would be important for us to make an assessment of whether equipment is in places where this may happen.

I do not want to, as I indicated, create hysteria. I want to be on alert.

Again, Mr. Chairman, let me thank you for this very important hearing, and let me thank my fellow Texans for setting a standard which the world can watch.

I particularly want to bring to your attention that one-third say their hospital has insufficient supplies of eye protection...

Your answer to how you are going to get all hospitals prepared, and, Mr. Wagner, your answer on airports that are not in this scheme of several airports, what are your men and women doing, and where do they take these patients if they find…

Medicaid expansion might help as well.

Eighty-five percent say their hospital has not provided education on Ebola with the ability for the nurses to interact.

I do not think that we are practically prepared, and that is why we are having this oversight hearing.

I especially want to thank the men and women of the United States military, particularly from Fort Bliss and Fort Hood that are now on their way or soon to be on their way.

I have made a request to the President, and to the Secretary, and to the Centers for Disease Control.

Cuts to public health preparedness grants from the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services... hit already struggling State and local health departments hard.

I raised the red flag to ensure that there was this kind of screening.

As citizens of the global community, it is our moral obligation to not only eradicate this virus that is devastating West Africa, but also ensure that these countries can continue to function and recover.

I would like to add into the record a letter dated October 8, 2014 officially requesting for the enhanced screening and CDC at Bush Intercontinental.

The committees of jurisdiction that are relevant to the actions outside of the boundaries of this Nation must collaborate

I hope my colleagues will consider the legislation

I hope my colleagues will join in this, simple, that says no fly for foreign fighters.

It is outrageous that the drafters of the amendment left out the Homeland Security Committee.

The idea of my legislation is for Congress to be advised on the completeness of the Terrorist Screening Database

I do support that legislation and I would rather have the Federal resources than unpaid National Guard.

I will not vote for an authorization for war, but we cannot talk about ISIL without doing something.

I think it is important even in this meeting to hold up the Constitution, to tell all of those who would have a malicious intent toward the United States is that we will not sacrifice our values, our liberty, our commitment to equality and…