Summer Lee

The Affordable Care Act takes important steps to ensure that people are not denied basic healthcare because of their gender, disability status, zip code, or income, but we still need Medicare for All, and we will keep fighting for it.

What we are talking about today is a proposed rule to extend Affordable Care Act benefits to an estimated 129,000 uninsured DACA recipients.

Our Republican colleagues pretend that DACA recipients are not already here, paying taxes, picking up kids from school and accessing our public health system.

Healthcare is a human right, and it should be available to everyone who resides in this country, no matter who they are.

This hearing, like so many before it, is nothing more than par-for-course fear mongering by my Republican colleagues.

The Arctic's growing strategic importance has made it imperative that America is prepared to confront the unique challenges.

This fix not only helps people who have legal status in our country, but all Americans.

Folks, this hearing, like so many before it, is nothing more than par-for-course fear mongering by my Republican colleagues.

I just want to put on the record we are facing in the next decade artificial intelligence.

With the collegiality that we will work together on the best solution of this matter.

Let me try to home in on what Americans may be impacted by.

So, that is--because I'm--that's the crux of one of the elements of the problem?

Just a slight moment down memory lane, Ms. Goitein, and something called COINTELPRO.

The work of Federal immigration and immigration enforcement lies with them, and it should stay with them.

Mr. Soros does not deserve that. He is an American and a patriot, and he also comes from a minority community.

It gives me pause when people want to demonize immigrants, migrants, and they want the same opportunities all of us do.

We are now at a point where common ground couldn't be found with a microscope.

With a little level of seniority, I have been through this for 28 years on this Committee, and actually worked on any number of comprehensive immigration reform initiatives that just couldn't find common ground.

You need to be more mindful of not only how you spend America's tax dollars, but also how you account for it.

Do you know how much the Department of Defense spent on snow crab and Alaskan king crab in 2018? According to OpenTheBooks, it was $2.3 million.

Do you know how many school lunches that amount could provide to hungry children in America, where for the one in eight children who go to school hungry, that may be the only meal they get? All of them, and then some.

When our country spends more on defense than the next ten countries combined, we rightfully have high expectations for how that department functions.

I think this is one of the few areas where I can agree with my Republican colleagues on the need and nature of this oversight.

Would you be concerned that to do so would be an infringement or perhaps a chilling on the First Amendment rights of parents to participate freely?

Does anyone need any further proof that these allegations are ginned up, corrupt political stunts advanced by those who don't want to see us follow the law.