Summer Lee

I feel that there is going to be legislation, but it will not be punitive and it should not be punitive.

I think each and every witness here, from the Government on, would say that you are unanimously in support of fighting online theft.

If you want to know about the devastation of a nation, these are the innocent Somalis who are fleeing a famine that is the worst famine in the history of Africa at this point.

The difficulty with these hearings is it may provide information, but it may provoke unnecessarily individual communities that are trying to do their best.

I would like to put this into the record.

I would like to have a hearing on right-wing extremists, ideologues, who advocate violence and advocate, in essence, the terrorizing of certain groups.

I have no quarrel with this committee getting information, and making sure that that information is utilized in the right way.

I would like to ask unanimous consent to submit into the record an FBI law enforcement bulletin regarding two prison radicalization.

The Nation of Islam is a religious group that practices the Muslim religion.

I think it is clear that that is the case.

But here is an individual attempting to undermine the protections that are given to women.

A Constitution is intended to endure for ages to come and consequently to be adapted for the various crises of human affairs.

Very briefly, let me define what my political correctness is. It happens to be this document, the Constitution.

Our concern is that holding a hearing that targets this community will have the unintended consequences of breeding alienation and fostering feelings of resentment.

It is an outrage, and as you well know, you already said there are not enough--there are too many mosques in this country.

It is an irony and an outrage that we are wasting time when Muslims are sitting before us.

We would be better off if we would have a hearing speaking about the importance of human intelligence.

This breathing document is in pain.

You can't clean it with dirty water.

One slip-up can cause a loss of life, and I think this is a process of security that we should continue our oversight on.

I think it is important when the agency itself constructively looks back what maybe, if you will, a regulation that has been utilized sufficiently and there is stark and non-debatable evidence that we don't need to move in that direction…

I want to complement you for caring for the mission of this subcommittee and the mission of this full committee.

I abhor an uneven playing field. I think it is just ludicrous.

One of the major benefits is to be able to keep these technologies here, keep the innovation here in the U.S., manufacture the technologies here, and create jobs here.

But jobs could grow every year. You can see jobs growing every year with technology inventions.