Summer Lee

First of all, let me just say to my colleagues, you all have a warped definition of woke.

That is outrageous. That is what America stands for.

I am proud to represent a portion of the city of Tampa, and ensuring proper security at the Port of Tampa is a key priority for Florida and for our Nation.

This Republican crusade against responsible investing is putting Americans' hard-earned savings at risk, and we cannot sit by and let that happen.

This critically needed funding will support infrastructure upgrades, enhance resource capabilities, and expand two research and development programs at the Pittsburgh site.

I'm really proud my district in western Pennsylvania is home to one of three Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) sites.

We all have had the horrors of ransomware. We are facing it, the threats over the years, the stories, the tall tales, if you will.

I worry about the asymmetry of values. Because our adversaries--the Chinese, the Russians, the North Koreans, the Iranians, cyber criminals--will do things with impunity that we, frankly, wouldn't do, as a values-based democracy.

How important is the manufacturing of chips in the United States to cybersecurity, the security of our cyber system, doing our chips--having that manufacturing capacity right here in the United States?

I hope as the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee continues its work going forward that its makeup will be more inclusive of the number of women and people of color with cybersecurity expertise whose perspective CISA would benefit from…

I'm concerned about large populations--low-income, minorities, rural persons--out of the circle of even understanding AI and its good and its dangers.

One of the gaps in CISA, in terms of across the Nation, are NGO's, faith organizations, neighborhood organizations, small businesses, maybe even small colleges.

I want to just frame what we need to do to secure 702.

I take issue with my good friend's assessment of the weaponization of this particular tool.

We must carefully consider the use and the continuation of these powers in the face of evidence of overreach and abuse.

It is a great responsibility to have a surveillance technique that exists outside of the standard public parameters of our courts and search warrant procedures and incumbent on all of us to ensure that when that process is used, it is used…

FISA is intended to be an important tool in gathering foreign intelligence information designed to give law enforcement a way to promote national security and keep our homeland safe from foreign threats.

We're all appalled at that.

The individualized judicial review is important because in this program we do not have individualized judicial review at the front end.

We must, in fact, find a way as we did previously in a bipartisan manner to deal with the tool that we use for individuals that are non-U.S. persons and who happen to be abroad.

I hope it is in reference to many aspects of what we have seen particularly in the September 2021 report.

We can do better, and we can do more.

Republicans would rather invade sovereign nations and line the pockets of war-profiteering friends than spend a single penny actually helping Americans suffering from addiction.

Clearly, water use is incredibly important to my state and all the seven states in the Colorado River Basin.

Last month, I led a bipartisan, bicameral reintroduction of the Open ET Act.