Summer Lee

I find the Shelby decision partisan in its most appalling way.

I also urge you to hold states accountable.

I believe that passing H.R. 1 was a necessary step, but you must not stop there.

I believe that modern, fair, and free elections are critical to removing institutional barriers that have suppressed the votes and voices of black voters since Reconstruction.

I believe that Congress has a constitutional obligation to act to ensure every American citizen has equitable access to exercise their voting rights.

It sends a negative message to people that they are not entitled just because of citizenship, as Representative Jackson Lee said, to participate in elections because it is their right.

It is much to my dismay that Texas has become the prototype for denying the rights of citizens to vote.

Thank you for giving me the privilege of testifying about discriminatory barriers in voting.

I think that we really need to think about how this affects those marginalized communities and make sure that as we are proposing this legislation that we are considering those barriers.

I would almost consider it a birthright, and in this historic town where I am reminded of the message of, I am a man--I am an American--I am a woman--I am an Native American--I am an African American--I am an individual deserving of that…

The lesson that we learn here is that maintaining our rights requires vigilance.

And I thank you very much.

White supremacy is a greater threat than international terrorism right now.

The cost for this particular line item was about $238 million per year. Shortly thereafter, they told us that the cost was actually $950 million

More than half of VA's reported $2.3 billion costs couldn't be verified based on the source data

Good morning. Thank you all for being here. This hearing will now come to order.

I just have concern and I hope that we can continue to have some transparency as we roll out.

I mean, this was a fixed-price contract, VA implemented it with indefinite deliverable, indefinite quality, which really would have shifted a lot of the risk onto the contractor.

Do you have an agreement; do you have any licensing agreements with those groups and is there like a stop date at 10 years?

Okay, all right. So at go-live, how is the VA going to address these capabilities in Cerner that are not going to meet clinical needs such as prosthetics and where there is no alternative product?

But it is not included in your $5 billion-- to maintain VistA. So this is we have another cost on top of that to take care of this 40 percent?

So just thinking about the costs. So you have these other capabilities, you have plans to modernize or replace those capabilities, where is that cost coming from?

I have been on the committee since 9/11, and I have engaged with CBP, Border Patrol, for all of those years.

You are backlogged, and you have children there that are longer there than 100 days.

You have children that you cannot identify any relative that was taken away under this administration.