Summer Lee

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

Companies like MP Materials are playing an absolutely essential role in securing our clean energy future and shoring up our strategic positioning in the critical minerals sectors.

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.

Back in my state of Nevada, Nevada-born and Nevada-based Redwood Materials is building a battery recycling facility near Reno that is creating 5,000 jobs and will be able to process enough recycled materials to supply a million EVs a year.

As we transition to a clean energy economy, as well as the focus on hardrock mining, we are no strangers to these issues and stand to economically, of course, benefit tremendously from this transition.

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

When the President established Avi Kwa Ame National Monument earlier this year in my district, he directed the Department of the Interior to evaluate opportunities to locate a visitor center or other visitor information facilities.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Let me submit into the record Texas Public Radio: 'More than 5 Texans die every day from fentanyl.'

I know that their work is sincere. Their competence is at the highest level, and they fight every day to protect the American people from the scourge of drugs.

Yes, with Lake Mead being one of the most visited National Recreation Areas in the country, it was quite, let's just say, very disruptive to our economy and our community.

By endorsing falsehoods and bullying tactics, Members of Congress are helping to promote a culture of discrimination.

Barriers to treatment disproportionately affect people of color, pregnant people, individuals with children, those in rural communities...

I would like to thank the Committee for holding this hearing and giving us an opportunity to discuss this health crisis because that is what addiction is, a health crisis.

What I would describe this as right now is a fight to save lives because we are losing Americans every single day.

I could not say it more clearly that our top priority is to defeat the cartels, and I believe that's what we have to do.

Addiction is the bane of our existence, and that is a light word.

Convince the American people that you are fighting the cartels with every might that you might have.

In fact, at this time last year there was only one remaining boat launch open.

I strongly oppose any effort to impose ultra-conservative political or religious views on the medical decisions of American families.

As a sexual assault survivor, many policies pushed today completely ignore my experiences and many women like me.

What’s bigoted and hateful is the discrimination against women and the efforts to erase women and our equal opportunities, dignity, and safe spaces.

I see nothing in the leadership of Director Milgram or President Biden that would suggest that there would not be an open and continuing investigation and abided by whatever the resolve is.

Banning access to gender-affirming care would violate parents' due process rights, and the Federal Courts agree.

This is an oversight hearing, not an impeachment hearing. This is a hearing to address the questions of the work that has been done.