Summer Lee

I want to ask whether the chairman, the gentleman from Florida, wants to go and I will go after him.

I think you all are part of the most important hearing that we may be holding on the Hill today.

Because of who they are and their race.

This is a Nation of immigrants and a Nation of laws, and all people must be protected.

I think we need to revisit how we are spending our money, and we are wasting huge amounts of the taxpayers' money locking people up who pose no threat.

And I think that I would just say that is something that ought to be revisited because to have miscarriages or stillbirths is just not the right thing.

I want to put on the record that I am against the NPP.

We are all in the same boat. We all care about the same things.

I reject and resent the actions that have been dictated by the toxicity at the top.

Let me indicate that I have the deepest amount of sympathy for anyone that loses a loved one.

We owe them something. This Committee is willing to pay the debt.

The science is clear. The evidence is clear.

Assault weapons account for 430, or 85 percent of the total 501 mass shooting fatalities.

What kind of wound would a child's body receive from an automatic weapon?

I am adamantly against assault weapons. I believe in a buy-back. I have no shame in that.

You are here supporting a ban on assault weapons?

These are weapons of war, period, full stop. They don't belong in our communities.

The decline in federal, state, and local investment in infrastructure over the last two decades.

We need to really pull up our pants legs, if we will, and pull up the pants and really get back to the business of investing in infrastructure.

We live in a state of crisis in jurisdictions and topographies like Florida along the southeast coast.

The reason, of course, is because of our particular topography.

Let me thank you so very much for this particular hearing.

Just about five days ago, the city of Houston experienced what I know many of our citizens... feared that they might be facing Hurricane Harvey again.

I think the other telling point is that, in 2020, Section 5 districts will be going into redistricting without that protection.

I think the Shelby case is one of the most significant moments in history that really makes lifeless some of the promises of the Constitution.