Summer Lee

I think, in addition to the analysis it is important to have real-life experiences as well, and I hope that is part of your assessment.

What we don't do here today and fix this problem, a child will be victimized tomorrow.

I couldn't get through the television to help you out.

I would like to give money on the enforcement side, but I would also like to increase the punitive measures.

What would help you then?

I happen to believe in that phrase that where there is a will, there is a way.

Many of the needed reforms mentioned here are embodied in Title VI of H.R. 264, legislation introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).

This is an important issue and I wanted to take a moment to provide you and the committee with my perspective.

So showing up at a laundry with a raid and you have your uniform on, that would spill through the community and keep you from finding the MS-13 or anyone else that you might try to find.

I don't think we have answered that. That is true, and we need to improve that.

In large cities with multiple multicultural communities, it is very difficult to extract information on violent crimes or human trafficking when there is this sense of intimidation.

Let me acknowledge--I think it is Sheriff Jenkins--just to thank him for his work.

My position is that we should have comprehensive immigration reform.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing, and let me acknowledge each and every one of the witnesses as patriots and individuals who love this country, and we respect that.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening today's very important hearing on copyright licensing in a digital age.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and I am conflicted because I am in between Homeland Security, but this is very important to me.

I would like to invite you to the region. I welcome what you are doing in the Gulf region with the Secretary of HUD.

I think it is enormously important for this very important department to have a focused jurisdiction.

The housing issue is really at a crisis. We have got the manufactured housing on the ground all ready to go and can't move and people don't have housing.

The house is on fire and this bill is a hose that is probably long overdue, but we have got to get the water where it needs to be.

The Federal Government is the last resort, the last big spender, and of course a lot of people run out of the room when they hear that.

We are at a point where the Federal Government has to be the one that either frames or infuses capital into the market.