Summer Lee

D.C. pays more Federal taxes per capita than any state, and overall, D.C. pays more Federal taxes than 19 states.

This tenet of no taxation without representation helped launch the American Revolution as ensconced in the Declaration of Independence.

It has been stated the United States is the only democratic country that denies voting representation on the national level to the residents of the capital.

Our country's founders believed that taxation without representation was tyrannical.

The FACE Act has been a really important tool.

I want to thank Ms. Camp for the work of the National Abortion Federation that all I can see is certainly attempting to do its work.

As a FACE Act in a lifesaving provision for many of the clinics--freestanding clinics that are familiar with dealing with the right to choose and reproductive rights?

I represent a state that has an incredibly wide range of energy sources.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank all of the witnesses today.

Now is not the time for cuts to the FDA while expecting them to modernize and streamline their systems.

If we want a stronger system, we need to fully fund the FDA to protect infants who use formula.

The answer is, of course, not the 22 percent across-the-board cuts as passed by Republicans last month...

The infant formula shortage has been horrible for all parents, but it has been even more devastating for low-income families...

If we had a default after talking about Democrats and their support of law enforcement, these Republicans will in fact cut the Department of Justice over $8 billion and threaten 30,000 law enforcement.

Moody Analytics estimates that the default on America--and a default would result in more than seven million jobs lost, an unemployment rate over eight percent, and a wipeout of $10 trillion in household wealth.

Adding new work reporting and documentation requirements will be counterproductive. It will not help people work.

What we are doing with Default on America is really undermining our own safety net, putting children in dangerous health conditions, as well as hunger conditions without having a viable program?

By the way, you know on the record, we raised as Democrats collectively the debt ceiling three times under the past administration.

Strip food assistance from 994,000 Texans, threatening 855,000 Texans with restrictions.

We are just playing daggers with the working families of America. Just daggers. We are just shooting them in the foot, and many people in the heart.

Deny 1,100 Texans admission to opioid treatment, if you talk about raising the mental health crisis or even crime, that is your pathway.

If in fact these budget cuts were enacted, we would have 2.6 million people at risk of losing Medicaid coverage

You are defaulting on the American people, on promises, on obligations that have been made to them.

The prioritization of debt service payments over everything else is still default.

We have a moral obligation to, yes, stay woke, take a stand and be active, challenging injustices and racism.