Summer Lee

These are cities that are run by African Americans.

I cannot think of something more ironic than that particular Member specifically advocating for child separation policies.

Republicans continue to vilify people, including mothers and their children.

We are not here to campaign. We are supposed to be here to legislate.

Republicans cannot do the basic job that we are supposed to do.

Democracy is precious.

I am very happy to be here in America and to be able to have, as its basic infrastructure, democracy and the protection of dissident voices, those that I may disagree with, which is what we fight for.

It is unacceptable, but we've got to do whatever we can to put pressure on these governments with concrete actions.

They literally go around shaking hands with Putin and shaking hands with people like Khamenei.

We have to take concrete actions by sanctioning them.

We've got to do whatever we can to put pressure on these governments, because enough with the condemning.

Right now, there are thousands of people in jail right now suffering.

The Turkish Government and Erdogan was the first government ever that came out and publicly supported Hamas.

Turkiye was once a democratic country, but now it's pretty much the Trojan horse for Putin in NATO.

Turkiye could've been a bridge of Islam and West, but just because of Erdogan's policies, it's impossible.

We should speak for them, because they speak for the idea of democracy.

Time and time again, House Republicans have stood in the way of progress, of innovation, and of compromise.

I am not proud of the idea of migrants, babies, families who are fleeing true persecution, to be distributed across the Nation without regard for their humanity.

None of this has been moved, because my friends on the other side fail to realize that we are the United States of America.

We need to make sure that those individuals do not come here to do harm.

$13.6 billion, which has been held up by Republicans, would be Border Patrol agents, cutting edge inspection machines...

Real solutions require compromise, and MAGA Republicans aren't interested in compromise.

For too long, these priorities, which only grow more pressing for southern Nevada with each passing day, have been regarded as ancillary or secondary to other responsibilities of the Corps such as navigation and flood control.

I am also asking that this year's WRDA bill include my legislation to raise the funding cap on the Las Vegas Wash system.

No one knows better than a Nevadan just how precious our Nation's water resources truly are, especially in southern Nevada.