Summer Lee

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

All Americans deserve healthcare, and DACA recipients deserve to have a secure and healthy future in our country.

Republicans like to paint a picture of America in crisis, millions of people lined up at the border all coming to destroy your way of life.

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

Today, I am disappointed to say that not only has this hearing been disingenuous with the American people, it has wasted an opportunity to go after real waste, fraud, and abuse.

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.

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

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

Republicans are holding a hearing to deny 129,000 people healthcare. Sad.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.