Summer Lee

The voting rights struggles of the 20th Century are now joined by voting rights threats posed by the 21st Century.

This bill strengthened the original Voting Rights Act by replacing Federal voting examiners with Federal voting observers.

Along with many of my colleagues in the CBC, I was an original cosponsor of H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act.

Protecting the homeland requires partnerships throughout all levels of government, and across industries and party lines.

I have been persistent in my efforts to protect the rights of disenfranchised communities in my district of inner-city Houston and across the Nation.

The Constitution establishes that Congress can set the date of Federal Elections.

Cybersecurity is a team sport, and now is the time to double down.

What should Congress be doing? This is so vast.

I think that if I can pursue this with you, I would not have ever imagined ourselves to be in this predicament.

We, the Judiciary Committee, are being definitely tasked in our responsibility, so I am grateful to have this opportunity.

I want to start by thanking Chair Nadler for holding this urgently needed hearing today.

Make no mistake about it. While Republicans may be pro-forced birth, they are anything but pro-life.

I have unanimous consent to submit into the record the Senatorial Testimony of the Supreme Court judges of Kavanagh, Gorsuch, and Amy Barrett.

This is a direct threat to me, my loved ones, and most importantly to millions of people across this country who face one or more of these many threats that have been unveiled by the Dobbs decision.

The horrendous revocation of human rights that have caused people in nine States across the country to lose access to abortion.

I find it stunning that we are being lectured on what violence is and what extremist by colleagues, some of whom have fueled that very violence by not condemning the January 6th insurrection.

The conservative opinion that overturned Roe has now suggested that somehow there were problems in the legal reasoning of that precedent.

These rights could begin to fall as soon as this October, which is why I introduced the Protecting Access to Contraception Act with Representative Mike Thompson.

We need to expand the Court.

What does that do in imploding the American concept of justice and the role of the Supreme Court that has now caused the clashes of American people?

Is that America? I don't think so.

You know what States' rights are? Hanging Black people. You know what States' rights are? The denial of civil rights.

We know that, in Ohio, a 10-year-old rape victim was denied an abortion and forced to travel across State lines to access care.

This is an absurd posture that is being taken here. I respect the religious beliefs of all, and I respect that there are differences in this nation.

Materials submitted by the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee, a Member of the Committee on the Judiciary from the State of Texas, for the record