The last thing we need to do is create another Government power grab in the form of contorting our regulatory framework.
The last thing we should do is to contort our capitalist system in a way that would destroy opportunities in the long ru...
I'm sure you're aware of the disparate treatment that they receive, and I would be very interested in hearing your thoug...
As you can imagine, I don't want Tennessee whiskey or Kentucky bourbon to be a casualty of this.
This legislation in Texas would strip the ability of Harris County to do that.
History repeats itself often, and, unfortunately, in the Deep South, from where I hailed, that has gone on pre-Civil War...
It is time that we, as the people's House, rise to this threat to our democracy and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Ad...
It rightly prevented potentially discriminatory voting practices from taking effect before they could harm minority vote...
We can't just fold up our hands and give it to the State legislators because, if we did that, we know we would be back i...
they not only hurt Black people, Brown people, and indigenous people, but they also hurt poor White people.
The Voting Rights Act with an effective preclearance provision went a long way towards righting that wrong.
This mechanism ensures that the new voting rules and practices in jurisdictions with a history of discrimination were fa...
We can't win if everybody votes.
Our democracy cannot continue half-slave and half-free.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court effectively gutted the VRA's preclearance requirement in 2013...
so we at least have a shot at winning.
This is why Congress had repeatedly reauthorized the pre-clearance provision on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis.
China is more than doubling, according to reports, their nuclear inventory.
