Bill Lee

Thank you for your tremendous work and leadership.

I would respectfully ask members of this committee and my colleagues in Congress to become cosponsors of H.R. 1880--Women and Climate Change Act of 2019 and H. Res 574--resolution on teaching climate change in schools.

My bill would also establish a working group within the U.S. Department of State to help brainstorm potential solutions to address the disproportionate effects that climate change has on women and their families.

As a person of faith, Madam Chair, I believe that we must protect God's creation.

We need to teach every young person the human impacts of climate change and how to address our warming plant--quite frankly, before it is too late.

We need America to be a leader in addressing the climate crisis that is affecting women around the world.

This is why my bill is so important, because it would help bring attention to this very important issue.

My bill and the resolution will help bring attention to two populations who are often overlooked, women and students, as it relates to climate change.

In reserving the right to object, I want to make sure I understand that the Senator wants to make his live UC request after the rollcall vote.

We are going to have to catch up now, and we are going to have to do more to make sure food security doesn't become even a larger problem in this country as a result directly from the shutdown.

I think we need some more sticks on this policy.

Far too many children find themselves humiliated and ashamed in classrooms for owing money for school lunches.

What is worse, many of these children are forced to go hungry for unpaid school meals, which is just plain wrong.

What this witness just said, I don't understand then why, by your own analysis, 1 million children are going to lose their automatic benefits to free meals based on your presentation.

Cutting people off of food benefits removes barriers to work. How does this really help them find a job?

1 million children that will lose automatic access to free school meals, even worse than we feared.

Three quarters of a million people will lose their SNAP benefits on the work requirements.

I am a former food stamp recipient. So personally, I am deeply disturbed by these proposals, because I know what this means for people who are living on the edge.

It is unfathomable to me that anyone would shame and punish children for their parents' or their guardians' inability to afford school meals.

The economy is still not working for everyone, and the Administration should not make it worse by decimating one of our most effective safety net programs.

I am concerned and I worry that this will disproportionately impact working families with children trying to climb out of poverty.

So analyzing policies in that way, the decline in union density has been most dramatic among black workers, and the lack of access to union membership has been most detrimental to black workers who disproportionately live in right-to-work…

The moment, I think, has come to study and look at what reparations mean.

We cannot talk about income inequality without talking about racial inequality.

And I am going to suggest to this Committee that the next time we have a hearing on economic inequality we add 'racial.' We have to say economic and racial inequality. Otherwise we are missing it.