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Summer Lynn Lee is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 34th District since January 1, 2019. She is known for her strong advocacy on social justice issues and her commitment to community engagement. Lee has focused on policies that address inequality and promote the interests of her constituents, often emphasizing the need for accountability among elected officials and the importance of fighting against corporate influence in politics. Her work reflects a dedication to progressive values and grassroots activism.
As we have gone through this pandemic, we recognize disproportionately that African Americans, the descendants of the slave trade in many cases, have no health insurance and, in many other cases, are under insured along those lines as well.
This legislation is an important step in acknowledging the inherent cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery.
Now more than ever the facts and circumstances facing our Nation demonstrate the importance of H.R. 40 and the necessity of placing our Nation on the path to reparative justice.
When this Committee last met to discuss this legislation, we required three overflow rooms to contain the scholarship and the passion displayed in support of this bill.
This is what this hearing is about, to be able to speak to the Nation and for the Nation to continue its overwhelming support that it has given to H.R. 40.
Thank you very much, Mr. Nadler, for your consistent support of this legislation, beginning with our beloved late colleague, John Conyers.
This is a potent and powerful hearing today, and I am glad that we are responding to the majority of Americans who see the value in H.R. 40.
I ask my colleagues to recognize that what we speak of today is based on the continuing impact of the brutality of slavery.
I believe if we move this Nation to what H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals, we will look globally at the treatment of African Americans.
African Americans still overwhelmingly support immigration reform that provides a path to citizenship.
We have seen the opportunities taken to use African Americans as a wedge issue.
It is important that we start anew almost, having been on this Committee for a number years, to really go bold.
Cybersecurity has to be, from the domestic security perspective, a heightened and enlightened defense effort.
I join with my colleagues that we should be on the offensive and not the defensive.
Just ask the question, has any other president, no matter where they`ve been impeached or not, been charged with insurrection and the tearing down the government?
Did the President do that? Did he watch in joy as was evidenced by video while the insurrection was occurring?
What do we say to the world? And again, my question, what kind of nation do we live in or we want the world to know that we live in if we do not hold him accountable?
The attack on the Capitol was an act of domestic terrorism and it was primarily and much attributed to the words of the President of the United States, President Trump, who emboldened those who carried out this terrorist act.
It is tragic that close to 4,000 people every day are dying of COVID-19, again, a dereliction of his duty.
One thing that we do know for sure that the President of the United States Chris is a clear and present danger to the United States of America and to the people of the United States.
Mr. President, I object to the 15 votes from the state of North Carolina because of the massive voter suppression and the closing of voting polling booths in the early voting of 16-1.
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