Summer Lee

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Now is not the time for cities to withdraw from these programs to score petty political points.

We are here because laws of the federal government acted as hammers to make people do the right thing.

Let me say that it has been an honor to be on the Judiciary Committee and work on the reauthorization with the leaders who are here.

Can I just particularly ask you the question of the pain of not having preclearance and being confronted with the oppression of not being able to vote.

What you may not know is standing in the courtroom the day after the Shelby case was issued, fighting against the elimination of North Independent School District...

I will say to you that the legislation was named in this last time after Fanny Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar Chavez, and I put in Barbara C. Jordan...

Let me thank the chairman very much, and what a bittersweet moment, Mr. Birnberg, if I could ask for a moment, so I can get your name on the record.

We are here because laws of the federal government acted as hammers to make people do the right thing.

And I think we should do that.

No one should blame the men and women of DHS for problems Congress has allowed to fester.

I hope we can come together to enact a meaningful authorization bill that unifies the Department and provides its employees with the funding, authorities, training, and equipment they need.

The focus of this hearing is now on the troubling problem of vacancies in critical offices throughout DHS.

Today's hearing will give Members an opportunity to explore the impact of DHS's leadership void on the Department's ability to carry out its critical mission.

I think that these are incredibly important programs in our community.

I hope that we can look at ways to continue that investment.

I hope we can find a way of better tracking that.

But we do know that there are instances where businesses are employing automation to replace workers in jobs that were traditionally done by humans.

You just really don't want to give us equal rights.

This will implode the 35 states we already have because now more are tuned to the arguments there will be a mountain of opposition.

You said it was Executive Order 1300?

What is being done to incentivize election officials to report suspected malicious cyber activity?

I am particularly talking about the use of the cyber system to promote hate.

I would say a good percentage of those used the cyber system to proffer their hate or to take from it their hate.

I find it baffling that this administration talks tough about cybersecurity but cuts funding to essential cybersecurity programs.