Bill Lee

You have been very generous with your time and with your testimony.

I think given the opportunities we are continuing to miss, now we see China and Russia with regard to vaccine distribution in Cuba.

I have long supported the reestablishment of our relationship with Cuba and remain deeply committed to restoring U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties.

We cannot solve the climate challenge if we stop talking to the Chinese.

I believe we are having a briefing on the Northern Triangle. But I think your request of providing the questions in advance make a lot of sense.

Congresswoman Lee has been the moral center of issues of war and peace.

Congress is past due for a reexamination of our security needs and authorities to determine whether we are directing our efforts and resources in ways that truly make Americans more secure.

Statement from Congresswoman Barbara Lee dated March 23, 2021

Last year, to his credit, Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee called for the bust to be removed, citing the brutal crimes that Nathan Bedford Forrest committed against African-Americans.

I was encouraged to see that the administration is committed to modernizing our drinking water, wastewater, stormwater systems, as well as tackling new contaminants.

Can you commit to keeping the SNPLMA fund dedicated as a special account in the Treasury?

I couldn't agree with you more on the human-to-human interaction that gets fostered through arts and the humanities.

I think that could be a very powerful tool.

So, I think we can start to do some of that work internally.

Our tourism industry has the power to drive demand for plastic incentives and the economic incentives to make a shift towards more sustainable substitute materials.

I want to focus on one particular approach for how we can incentivize industry and investments to shift away from the production of new plastic and towards reuse systems and sustainable substitute materials.

This is, to me, a really important issue.

We can't come to the end of this and have so many more people of color falling into the--not even into the ranks of the poor but into the ranks of those who are hungry.

We have got to figure out how we can sustain this and keep people from--keep more people from going hungry through this period.

We had a problem, a hunger problem in America before COVID. We have a hunger problem now.

I think one of the issues, there may be areas of low unemployment. But with people of color, you have high unemployment.

I really applaud your administration--our administration for continuing to suspend the 3-month time limit on SNAP benefits for unemployed adults without dependents.

Thank you for this hearing, very important hearing to get this information out to the public; so many layers to unpeel with this.

Are there challenges that you have identified? And just how are we doing in meeting the goals of that assessment?

I hope that we can work with everyone in a bipartisan manner to find some solutions to these problems.