Summer Lee

Does it violate the Second Amendment?

The law-abiding citizens would not be blocked from getting a gun through a background check. Is that correct?

I believe your statistics of 3 million people effectively being stopped through gun checks, and the universal background check bill is a bill of common sense.

A hundred Americans dying every day. So that means as we sit here today, there are Americans being killed by guns.

I thank Chair Thompson for the years of work. I have had the privilege of working with him, and that we have come to this point is very much attributable to his persistence.

The Secretary of State should probably resign after issuing an advisory on January 25th flagging 95,000 of the state's registered voters as potential noncitizens.

Our local officials closed the polls at 4:00 p.m.

I remember in the voter ID law that we were experiencing the panic in rural areas of DPS offices closing up or not being available.

African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely than Anglos to be living in poverty because they continue to bear the socioeconomic effects caused by decades of racial discrimination.

Do you believe that Texas is one of the major epicenters of voter suppression?

The elimination of straight-ticket voting... will disenfranchise maybe hundreds of thousands and maybe a million voters plus.

Let me again emphasize that the Honorable Barbara Jordan who represented this district would not have been elected had it not been for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

It is time we stop dealing with fantasy and we deal with facts.

Preclearance was an effective tool for today, in the historical today that prevented suppression of voting from State and local entities

We are here today for is to assess the current and visible and sound actions of those today that are suppressing the vote

I think it is important to put on the record that, as a member of the Budget Committee, having to suffer through a Republican budget that took $2 trillion out of Medicare and Social Security on the basis of having to fund the $2 trillion 1…

But I also want to clarify that they do represent an economic engine that we have to appreciate, work with, and protect others from bad speech.

Any time that we see somebody organizing an event for violent purposes or engaging in calls for violence or hate speech, we will remove it from the site.

I have come to a conclusion now that it was truly stolen.

It is a responsibility of Congress to give guidance and regulation, as we have noted the expanse of both...

The reason I worked on this bill before the full House for consideration is a problem often referred to as 'zero-day events.'

I hope more than useful.

I don't believe, in particular, that the commander-in-chief has been particularly effective in acknowledging that invasion in 2016.

I frankly believe that this Government has not been effective in recognizing the larger picture, and that is the enormous involvement and invasion that Russia perpetrated in 2016.

I believe that this will be a Federal election in a large way.