Summer Lee

Is the Bureau prioritizing its investigations into violent hate crimes?

African Americans have been targeted in 48.5 percent of all hate crimes.

Since 2019, the United States has experienced a steep rise in hate crimes.

I believe we should go big. And, frankly, I believe that the President... we cannot go small. We have to go big.

I introduced H.R. 2980, which deals with Cybersecurity Vulnerability Mediation Act.

To both gentlemen, we know that the private sector over the years has had 85 percent of the Nation's critical infrastructure, including cyber.

Whenever we begin to talk about climate change, opponents consistently say that mitigation efforts are too costly.

What do we say to those who want to use money... to be an excuse for not going big on climate infrastructure rebuilds?

I think we will find out--if we can educate the American public how broad the landscape is, that climate change impacts their very life, their very degree of security, their very bottom-line dollar, then maybe we would be able to be very…

Very grateful that we are beginning to turn the corner with the Biden administration and the American Jobs Plan.

The Trump administration disregarding these challenges increased the likelihood that Americans would experience these risks unfortunately.

America lost years of progress on addressing climate change due to the Trump administration's outright refusal to accept science.

I am proud that the Biden administration is taking climate change seriously.

We will say to America that we too, are America. We too are Americans. We too deserve. We too should be memorialized. We too should be repaired, restored. And there is as the church said yesterday, no reconciliation without justice.

I call on my colleagues in the Senate to urgently pass this legislation.

We have to stop voter suppression before it happens.

The Shelby v. Holder decision made clear that those section 2 protections are not enough.

This is not new and it will not change if Congress neglects our duty to protect the rights of all people.

Republicans have been scrambling to suppress votes and they are doing so with urgency.

Congresswoman Jackson Lee, section 5 is effective and efficient because, number one, it stopped voting rights discrimination before discriminatory changes could be put into effect.

Texas has a long history. It is a State that has the most pronounced overt, racist voter suppression tactics that we know of.

I think it is high time that we pass the John Lewis act.

I implore my colleagues from across the aisle in Texas to stop attempting to suppress the minority vote and let the people vote.

It is unfortunate that even with this rich history... we are still finding these assaults on our democracy through assaults on the right to vote.

It is important that we know that the Voting Rights Act in its history... puts a ribbon on what our democracy is.