Summer Lee

Well, we certainly want to get rid of the fences for sure.

We've got to find a way to pinpoint just what the extent, damage, violence of retail crime, and organized crime.

I hope our witnesses have been able to... help us determine whether there's more that the Federal government can do to combat organized retail crime.

It is a multibillion-dollar enterprise, and I want them to know that I'm listening to those constituents in Houston.

Smash and grab, we're not here to support that.

We want to come here today and fully appreciate what we're dealing with.

I'm very appreciative of his presence here and as well his assistance in covering the Ranking Member capacity.

Could we not reduce the prevalence of these crimes by addressing as a component the current public health crisis of drug addiction?

We thank you, to the Chair, for your kindness.

As an elected environmental justice advocate from western Pennsylvania, I signal what opportunities lay ahead for the future of energy in my district, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and our country.

Thank you for your courtesies and let me thank Congressman Dean for her questioning, certainly to Congressman Swalwell, and to his constituent for his leadership, persistent leadership in assuring justice for you.

In my opinion, every Congresswoman, every congressman needs to sit and just be in that small business owner's shoes.

First, the loan volume is not coming through the bank. Our production is very low right now.

For those who say we're doing nothing, I know that the American Immigration Council has done some work on this.

Yes, I have seen the horrors of the Trump Administration snatching children away from their parents.

For every visit you've been to the border, I've probably doubled it. I've walked the streets and seen the despair.

I have a lot of friends in this room, and some are all on one side and many are on the other side. I have heard some shocking things in here that will literally take my breath away, adding to the Canadian fires, literally take my breath…

I think is an important hearing on the aspects of dealing with the civil asset forfeiture.

Frustrating, corrupt, unfair, so forfeiture in the words of its victim.

It seems that we have a space where we can find some enormously bipartisan issues.

I stand today in solidarity with the millions of Black and Brown folks who have been locked up over the failed war on drugs. I stand before you today some 50 years from the war on drugs and 39 years after President Reagan signed the…

If we are going to conduct meaningful oversight over what happened at SVB, we need to bring the bank's leadership in for questioning as other Committees have.

The Trump Administration gutted the oversight of midsized banks, encouraging the rapid, reckless business practices.

We do remember that President Trump, along with the Republican-controlled Congress gutted Dodd-Frank's financial stability protection rules.

Our Republican colleagues seem to be blaming the government for this bank collapse, but you cannot take away the teeth from the regulatory agency and then cry foul when it does not function properly.