Summer Lee

I join with my colleague and friend from New York, Ms. Clarke, on the number of iterations that we have had since my tenure on this committee.

We should be working together, but we shouldn't put up straw men or false information about what is transpiring.

I think I have literally lived at the border at every crisis that there have been.

Can you also confirm your fiscal 2024 budget request ensures that you have everything you need to address the crisis?

I urge the Administration to move with all possible speed.

Yucca Mountain is a central roadblock to progress in identifying workable long-term storage options.

I also agree with you that consent-based siting is the path forward.

It is zero dollars of delivering waste to Nevada without our consent.

Civil rights is important for those children. How are you funding civil rights?

I am seeing the slashing of veterans' healthcare, education, healthcare programs gutted $29 billion, defunding of law enforcement and disaster response.

Childcare is often an economic burden for those families, and we would like to do something about that.

The child tax credit worked, and we would like to see it continued.

The budget lowers the deficit by $3 trillion.

This President is clear he would not support benefit cuts to Social Security or Medicare.

In my former role as Florida's secretary of State elections, I worked extensively with CISA in securing our elections infrastructure.

Boosting EPSCoR funding is incredibly important for Nevada institutions and a top priority for me

It is also important to consider what happened. It was regrettable that this designation curtailed a couple renewable energy projects that had years of planning behind them.

I want to turn to another issue. As you know, Nevada just--or, we just designated Avi Kwa Ame--President Biden--as the Nation's newest national monument, in my district.

I think as I look at this particular hearing, back of my mind I'm wondering what cause are we here for?

I am a fighter for the Constitution, First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Second Amendment.

Just as a Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs has endangered the health and safety of millions of women, do you anticipate that Bruen decision will threaten the safety of Americans and why?

The work of the ATF is to ensure that we regulate not your work, not your brace, but to ensure that it does not get in the hands of those who would not be able to, if you will, use it as you would want it to be.

I am incredulous that we are holding this hearing.

I call you patriots, and I am grateful for your presence here today.

I thank them for their service and leadership.