Summer Lee

Their concern is shared by the Department of Defense in its annual report to Congress...

I thank each of today's witnesses for bringing their expert view on the state of cybersecurity and surface transportation in the United States.

I look forward to continuing to work with each of you along with returning Members of the committee...

We certainly know that Russia is--looms large as having intentions to interfere with our elections.

The independent right of every American to cast their vote, unimpeded, unsuppressed, and unoppressed.

The voting rights struggles of the 20th Century are now joined by voting rights threats posed by the 21st Century.

I was an original cosponsor of H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act.

This includes legislation aimed at: Increasing voter outreach and turnout; Ensuring both early and same-day registration; Standardizing physical and language accessibility at polling places; Expanding early voting periods; Decreasing voter…

I have been persistent in my efforts to protect the rights of disenfranchised communities in my district of inner-city Houston and across the Nation.

I look forward to continuing working with the returning Members of the committee and welcome an outstanding cohort of new Members on both sides of the aisle.

The Paycheck Fairness Act is a critical piece of the range of things that we need to do to reduce those poverty rates

I have had a career in helping our most at risk student's graduate from high school and we have found that the most significant risk factors for students dropping out is poverty.

You have publicly stated numerous times your support of the community schools strategy, especially in schools serving a high percentage of students living in poverty.

When you have that level of overcrowding in a school, there are lots of different impacts to it.

I represent a large part of the Clark County School District in Nevada, one of the fifth largest school districts in this country.

These are extraordinary times, Mr. Attorney General.

There is this fear-mongering about the notion of workers losing their jobs because of an increase.

I think we need to take note of the lost opportunity cost of not increasing a minimum wage here.

We are talking about a lost opportunity cost.

A story like Mr. Wise's is the exception, not the rule.

Poverty is the most significant barrier to educational success.

I want sequester to go into the dawn of yesteryear, because, obviously, the grand bargain did not rise to the occasion.

I do think in this Committee that we should... not have broad labels of immigrants, African Americans, women, as we debate.

We all want to get to an end of gun violence, but I would like to ask Doctor--and by the way, for victims, my heart goes out to whether it is a shooting, it is sexual assault.

I do think in this Committee that we should--the parliamentary inquiry is the caution of making sure that we do not have broad labels of immigrants, African Americans, women, as we debate.