Summer Lee

Do you still maintain that we need to ramp up the monetary investment quickly to be able to be prepared for what we may not suspect might happen in 2020?

Do you believe, when information counters documented intelligence reports that Russia was the entity that interfered in 2016, and representations from government officials keep utilizing Ukraine as having a server, or having been involved…

I think CISA is a very important new entity. But listening to all of the witnesses, I am almost saying that we should declare a war room.

Absolutely disinformation to oppress, suppress the vote.

The headline says that the federal judge strikes down the Houston area bail system.

I think in the innovative thinking of what we should be doing on the federal level it is to detangle and disengage from a bail system for this nation.

I would certainly like to work with your staff on the kind of research that may be done because it is systematic; it is continuous; and we have not seemed to find a way to leap into a moment when that gap does not exist.

How devastating is that, and how can we add research to the Federal Reserve that deals with this seemingly,--continuing systematic divide in terms of income and wealth ultimately in the African American population?

Would you assume just that that was a great contributor to the wealth of the nation?

But you do admit that wage stagnation does exist?

When making monetary policy, does the Fed consider price inflation in these critical goods and services that disproportionately weigh on working families' pocketbooks?

I am not suggesting boots on the ground. I am not suggesting engaging in war, but I do think it is important for--at the highest level of the State Department, the Secretary of State, to realize the--'detraction' is too light a word--that…

The level of conflict is going to continuously undermine, I think, the potential for growth.

Great. We like saving money.

I was concerned when I looked at the VA's budgetary submission for 2020.

With respect to the validation of progress, are there any institutional changes that you recommend for VA leadership to help facilitate better results in that respect?

What is the status of the VA to address the recommendations that the GAO made over the last 4 years?

In the 6 months since that report was issued, has the VA corrected its course?

If it is found that an app is improperly using data, what is the repercussion after your review?

Are you taking any steps to vet these apps that you promote?

The Subcommittee on Technology Modernization is going to chart a new course today.

Cybersecurity is not a new challenge in the Federal Government.

But we do not have to be perpetrators of injustice and we do not have to duplicate those adversaries in places where many of us know--despotic leadership like Russia.

I say to the Federal authorities that you are well aware and on notice that you are not able to come into a church and demand anyone that is a representative of the faith to give anyone to anyone.

It is to my dismay that I have to come home to find many of those who live in my jurisdiction, my constituency, are panicked, frightened and in fear of their lives.