Summer Lee

I think we should jump right into it, jump right into climate change, and find that balance.

I ask you to join me in the roundtable discussions.

April 24 is too precipitous and too uncertain to move forward with knives on the airplane.

Do you think that the sequestration will have a more devastating impact than what might be represented?

I have made it very clear that I believe this is wrong-headed and really misguided.

I have always indicated that all of us become first responders.

Having lived through 9/11 as a Member of the United States Congress, having gone to Ground Zero during the recovery period, and seeing that kind of pain...

I always have said this from the time that I have been on this committee, while things are calm, people make suggestions as to why you have the Homeland Security Committee.

You need to stop this now. These cause bleeding, these cause injury, these can cause a terrible tragedy.

It is very difficult for me to believe that we don't have mandatory training for our flight attendants.

What you have is a compact area that flight attendants are dealing with passengers and under the new laws, no doors will be open for their relief.

If I was to splash a flight attendant with orange juice and water, and I know there are flight attendants there and I have great respect for them, I assume they would still be standing.

I have supported you in your uniform change. I have supported you in the sense of the law enforcement concept.

I remember distinctly the creation of TSA being on the Select Committee on Homeland Security.

You may have had a meeting with the flight attendants. Over the years I have introduced legislation for mandatory defensive training.

Congratulations for your leadership of the committee. Congratulations to my friend and colleagues, Mr. Richmond for his service as the Ranking Member.

So there may be longer lines?

I believe that one of our pathways to success is whether or not we can convince these individuals, whether they are benign, whether they happen to be in the category of cerebral persons who want to be stimulated, that they need to work…

Over the last 24 hours we have heard the proclamations, or proclaiming of a cyber war, cyber threats of major proportion in the next 2 years.

Let me thank you very much for your work, Secretary Lute, and I do want to thank my Chairman and Ranking Member, their timing is impeccable.

The ultimate end game, in my view, is to encourage, take action to facilitate the emergence of a single, free Korean state.

I would just conclude by, if I could, Mr. Chairman, allow them to answer, just conclude and hope that my colleagues will join me in making sure that the language in any legislation that we support has the emphasis on diversifying this…

One of the issues of the earlier process that we used was again tying visas to a specific employer, therefore stymying the growth of our domestic STEM field.

The odds of high skilled passing without comprehensive, and that is immigration reform, is close to zero, and the odds of comprehensive immigration reform passing without high skilled is close to zero.

Just last week, we were in the Supreme Court on the issue of the Voting Rights Act.