Summer Lee

I know that we in Houston and the Nation appreciate your faith and your words.

One of the things that we know right now is that if you make people call in for an application for a ballot, that doesn’t work, or if you tell them that they can print it out at home, remember 30 percent, 29 percent of all people in…

That change comes about through the power of voting. That is why this hearing is so crucial to be able to assess how we ensure in 2020 voting for all Americans.

I ask that the administration finally do the right thing and address this administratively.

There was no statutory mandate excluding gaming from this bill, and yet, basically, Washington bureaucrats chose to apply a regulation that was not meant in this bill.

I was so hopeful when we passed the CARES Act that we were going to get the needed aid to our companies, our small businesses.

The coronavirus is something that we have been told by our health professionals that is not at the end; it is at the beginning and surging.

I want to do TSO across the Nation. I don't want to--I am just saying that they are susceptible.

You need to implement some form of testing for CBP in terms of asking the question of whether or not the person has come from Italy, period.

I believe that this Nation was not prepared equating to its greatness and the responsibility it has not only to 300 million plus, but the world watches us.

Thank you for accommodating this urgent request to convene a meeting with the Acting Secretary and head of FEMA to discuss our nation's preparedness for a pandemic and to determine what level of Federal funding will be needed to carry out…

I want them to be connected to the task force to get those clinical tests or to get them connected for resources.

Low-income people, poor people do not have medical providers.

This is the kind of information that really needs to be presented to the public, not out of panic, but in terms of educating them.

Today, the World Health Organization, declared that COVID-19 to be a pandemic, which has reached at least 114 countries, sickening over 100,000 people, and killing more than 4,000.

The Nation's testing for the virus must improve.

I am respectfully asking this committee...that this particular trail be funded.

But does it have a higher level of contagious factors?

We passed an $8.3 billion plan... funding to State and local health agencies.

It is my intention to try to ask quick yes-or-no answers.

Thank you for holding this enormously important hearing.

Well, in this instance, the President never asked anyone, as you well know. He just presumptively and willy nilly snatches money away from people.

And secondarily, have you established a protocol for active duty military that may--we understand there is one and there may be another one--that may be infected by the coronavirus?

So you are a landlord, if you will, and you are being paid by HHS.

Would you say that the non-defense investment to combat the spread of such diseases and prevent a pandemics are part of our national security?