Thank you for holding this hearing and ensuring that we don't let this go until we get some real answers on this issue.

A Federal court ultimately put a stop to this practice because of the 'differential treatment inflicted on a group of individuals who are predominantly minorities' but had acted just 4 days before the election and only after a prolonged…

why is 3M taking a position of denying the scientific findings of its own scientists?

The committee has been greatly concerned about CBP's attempts to restrict the number of people seeking asylum at ports of entry through metering.

I want to begin thanking my esteemed colleague, Representative Escobar, for welcoming us to El Paso.

I simply wanted to, first, thank the witnesses both from the first and second panels.

I hope that members on both sides of the aisle and in both houses of Congress will come together and pass legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act to its full vitality.

One of the great unmet challenges is the current assault in legislatures and courts across the country on the right to vote.

These kinds of voting restrictions have a disproportionate negative impact on minority voters.

Restoring the vitality of the Voting Rights Act is of critical importance.

Thank you for examining discriminatory barriers to voting.

Mr. Chairman, I certainly disagree with the decision taken by the majority of the court.

It seems to me that if you had a modern test you could justify this even under Shelby County.

I have always read the Shelby County decision as saying that Section 4 was unconstitutional.

I think the states have an absolute right to do that, not just for their own--for legislatures but for Congress, too.

There probably needs to be some changes made, particularly because, you know, we had the bad Supreme Court decision recently, which is allowing Ohio to purge people based on what we think is--what we thought was an inaccurate…

But for other reasons--I mean, if people are still alive and they are able to vote they should be allowed to vote and should not be purged from the rolls.

to reestablish some of the protections that we had and maybe to go further in some other respects.