Summer Lee

This calamity is not in any way a reflection on the friendship that we have with the people of Mexico.

I think we have just seen sort of a mountain being built, and I think we have got to find a way to overcome it.

So we are looking for answers, and you think we should be meeting to get that?

We have just had so many examples in the last week.

So we can't intervene on the antitrust if we are trying to save newspapers, we have a legitimate standing in that instance?

I applaud you for having this discussion.

I want to thank the Chairman of the full Committee, Mr. Conyers, and I want to thank you for your leadership.

We would like to thank you for coordinating the April 6 meeting with representatives from the general aviation industry to discuss the proposed rulemaking on the Large Aircraft Security Program.

That was obviously a fractured response, and we needed urgent response.

I think security equates to urgency.

I am not yet committed to a merger. I think that collaboration is truly key, but there is a directive from the White House and likely we may have that.

I think this is an important discussion and, as well, hopefully at the end of the 60 days of the study that the President has authorized that we will have the right answer, and I think that is certainly a challenge.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. I thank Chairman Thompson for convening this important hearing to examine President Obama's Presidential Study Directive.

We need a fix on this system, and it is broken.

We are not doing our job.

Houston is not a sanctuary city. We have too much diverse political perspectives to be a sanctuary city.

I am rabidly supportive of cutting Federal funds for States that don't have stronger drunk-driving laws.

I, frankly, believe that homeland security, immigration issues is a Federal issue.

That means that we have at least $1 billion still sitting? Is that right?

I want to offer my enthusiast support for H.R. 847.

I just wanted to make sure that was on the record----

Mr. Chairman, if I can further----

Isn't the on or the equity on the side of ensuring that indigents get good defense and that that would be a Federal nexus and desire under the Constitution?

Isn't it true in your readings that you have seen my state be notorious for, one, poor defense--so let me just say it; I will put it on the record--of indigent as it relates to death penalty cases?

I am looking forward to hearing from our witnesses today, and participating in the ongoing conversation about how we can preserve the rights of ethnic minorities and refugees in wartime, so that these tragic episodes are not repeated.