Summer Lee

We should be finding solutions, but forgive me for trying to ensure that the record is set correct.

I stand with President Obama on that and I don't think that we should have left the government out.

The United States was not able to remain indefinitely.

Let me, first of all, acknowledge and appreciate the service of each and every one of you.

My hope for today's hearing is that we will focus on forward-looking solutions that will improve the safety of Americans at home and around the world.

The question about leaving them out, and you already said it, but you have got to give a little bit more flesh, and you have got 4 seconds or less I guess. I am over.

It breaks my heart. I have been there. I saw Kabul, I saw the women, I saw life.

I think we would do better if we find a way to work together.

This debt ceiling debate and debacle is more having to do with the dollar than anything else.

I am a defender and not an offender. I am not an aggressor, I am a defender.

The withdrawal commitment was not conditioned on Taliban reducing violence.

President Trump continued to express frustration with the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.

The president of Afghan did not show himself well in that moment.

The inherited chaotic withdrawal that was a result of Trump's Taliban deal.

The Trump-Taliban agreement severely constrained the Biden administration's options.

This is an attempt to second-guess the decisions made by the Biden administration.

The security of Americans cannot be a partisan issue.

We do better if we work together. Rather than we cast about what is bad and what isn't, let's work together.

This is an absurd and poor reflection of who we are as Americans.

We do better if we work together.

Can we do better in passing stronger gun safety legislation? We know we've had one bill, but can we do better?

Should we rush to Washington and implement a ban on assault weapons?

We need safe-storage laws to ensure that children can't access guns that shouldn't have them; to ensure that individuals who are in crisis can't access them and potentially commit suicide and mass shootings.

I abhor crime. I abhor victimization, the victims that suffer. I want to prevent crime.

This is a choice that we are making, to allow all the children of America to go into school worried that they're going to be the victim of a mass shooting. It's a scandal that we have done nothing about it.