Summer Lee

I am a proud co-sponsor of H.R. 1, which I hope the Senate turns on the light and allows us to pass that legislation.

I want to thank all of the witnesses for their commentary today.

Put simply, the Class Evaluation Act is a common sense solution to an incredibly salient problem facing student veterans: G.I. Bill overpayments.

I have introduced legislation on that, and there is extensive racial profiling, specifically in groups that may be considered Black identity groups that are really nonviolent.

I believe that Russia has been engaged in interfering with a number of our elections dealing with the '21 elections--I am sorry, the 2016 election.

Absolutely, because it would allow for a degree of accountability on both merit and as well as the diversity of personal/professional background.

Have you ever thought of the question of the African American community in particular and the long-term impact... of the unpaid history of slavery?

As well as the fact that continuing to have tax cuts for the rich doesn't help them either?

Fiscal policies that take into consideration debt and also providing for those who are need is important.

He inherited the excellence of the work that was done by President Obama and the Democratic Congress.

We are going the complete wrong way.

The President's proposed budget projects Fiscal Year 2020 revenues of $3.645 trillion, outlays of $4.76 trillion, leaving a deficit of $1.101 trillion.

America's top 10 percent now average more than nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent.

It is clear, however, that the issue of the discretionary, non-discretionary spending is one that I have seen millennials and Generation X and other really comprehend as an important contribution to the actual survival of this nation.

I am glad to hear that.

I certainly love the radical idea of perfect--a goal of perfect care, and I think that is certainly a goal that we should have when we are talking about men and women who have served this country to make sure that we are getting to a point…

I feel like we continue to pile on and on initiatives and yet, people who are running these facilities and people who are providing the care...

I am against mandatory minimums because your son could get caught up with it as well as others can get caught up.

I remember when we were discussing fentanyl and nobody knew what it was, and it is now an epidemic.

It hasn't solved any problems, and I will not cede to that.

I do want to go on record that mandatory minimums have never helped anything.

I have no opposition. It needs to remain on Schedule 1.

Fentanyl, of course, has been used to enhance other drugs, and it is deadly. I want to make that very clear.

We need a permanent band on fentanyl analogues.

We now have to figure out an entirely new strategy to work with the entire American public to educate the American people on our collective responsibilities.