Summer Lee

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank all of you for being here and for your service to our country's veterans.

Why would we let them continue on with business as usual?

We have this very pressing issue with for-profit colleges that aggressively target veterans and their GI benefits.

I hope, Mr. Chairman, that we will be able to pass that expeditiously.

One of the major problems at OIT has been high turnover in leadership.

It is clear that OIT has struggled in its mission.

I am pleased that the work that was begun last year will continue and I am honored to be part of the effort.

Well, this has been somewhat depressing, but also a helpful discussion. And we certainly look forward to working with the VA to ensure that we help overcome these deficiencies, because ultimately making sure that we are successful means…

I look forward to continuing as the Subcommittee moves forward with oversight of technology and modernization at the VA.

Successful IT programs require that agencies know exactly what they are building or buying, who the users are and what they are actually going to need.

I have always said in my constituency and coming from Texas, in Houston we are lovers of small business.

It is a serious concern that the pardon power can be abused.

This committee has made a commitment to the American people to abide by the rule of law.

It is imperative that this body take up the report and examine it.

Congress has a role in oversight. Congress has to ensure that rule of law is upheld.

The strength of the American constitutional system designed in 1787 in Philadelphia is the national government's separated powers in which the legislative, executive, and judicial branches serve as checks and counterbalances on each other…

This evidences the importance of this hearing.

I believe that with the introduction of these apprenticeship programs it is super important that we ensure that there is a strong quality control that ensures that individuals who are enrolled can also achieve the outcomes that they so…

By his works, not his words, by his deeds.

These are desperate situations, desperate times, and they need the help of the federal government as it relates to health care, HIV/AIDS, and, of course, Head Start, and many others.

Then can I ask you to ask the President to cease and desist incarcerating these children?

Do you agree with throwing out the Affordable Care Act that has been a lifeline to many people?

I know you are believing in hope. I want you to see the picture of devastation.

I think every life, every child is valuable and should have access to health care. Do you believe that, yes or no?

When children are separated from their parents it is profoundly traumatizing to them and sometimes takes them time to heal from the trauma that was imposed by our policy of systematically separating them.