Bill Lee

Our readiness, I think we can all agree, in the Pacific is a top concern for everyone.

As you are aware, there is a proposal circulating in the House to cut fiscal year 2024 funding levels back to 2022.

I agree with you, this is an incredibly important hearing, especially when we talk about our readiness with our services.

The passage of bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act with the largest investment in American industrial policy in the past 50 years...

It is unfortunate that an objection has been lodged. I think I disagree with every single assertion in there. It is not what this bill does, not in the slightest. This bill does not take the position that big is bad. I am well familiar…

I don't know if you remember, but you swore me in 1998.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and good morning.

We`ve got to elect state, local and federal officials who want to protect reproductive freedom and personal liberties.

This is a political struggle. It`s a generational struggle now.

The public supports abortion access and the right for a person to make their own personal health care decisions, whether one agrees with abortion or not.

The only way we are going to beat this is to fight back. We have to galvanize. We have to organize. We have to -- first of all, that Mitch McConnell doesn’t establish a national abortion ban. That means we have to vote in November and we…

This is the first time that a constitutional right has been taken away. What’s next? It’s going to be voting rights? Is it going to be marriage equality? Is it going to be civil rights? Is it going to be a ban on interracial marriages…

I very clearly remember Reaganomics. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer.

One of the major outcomes of the Rescue Plan is we saved lives and livelihoods. And if that is not important, I don't know what is.

Why should this Congress continue to add more and more money to the defense top line in the meantime if it can't be audited, if there is no accountability?

It is quite frankly the only cabinet agency not to pass an audit.

I shudder to think what would have happened had we not passed the American Rescue Plan and it has saved lives and it has saved livelihoods.

It is a real shame and disgrace that you all aren't working together.

It boggles my mind. There is no accountability there.

The Louisiana House Committee voted for a bill that will allow the state to charge people who have abortions with homicide.

I want to focus on access to timely mental healthcare.

I don't support vouchers or any of the privatizing of public schools, but I think community schools really are a very interesting and excellent structure for low-income kids, and especially kids of color.

Gun violence is continuing to kill students, teachers, and staff. It is an epidemic. It is a public health epidemic, and it has got to stop.

But we have got to stop the gun violence on campuses.

Randi, can you, or Jane, or anybody can respond to that issue with regard to black boys, black babies?