We must have a restoration of the Voting Rights Act in this country.
There was an intentional decision made at that time to disenfranchise African Americans.
If you can be registered for war at 18 automatically, you should be registered to vote automatically at 18, to expand th...
Attorney General Barr has a solemn obligation, as Attorney General, to provide the American people with definitive answe...
I am proud of Halifax County, I am proud to be their Representative, and I am proud to have this hearing today.
We are determined to fix Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, hopefully with bipartisan support, which was invalidated by...
Let me thank you, Chairwoman Marcia Fudge, for your friendship, and thank you for your leadership.
The right to vote was enshrined in the North Carolina Constitution, giving to African Americans the right to participate...
In 2013, they passed the Senate Bill 666 during this very week, Holy Week, 666. It was the worst attack on voting rights...
Thank you for your testimony today. You have been on the front lines in this State for a very long time.
I believe the original voter ID law passed by the legislature was struck down by the court.
We are notorious for cutting off witnesses, so please don't take this personally, but the five minutes go pretty fast.
I am haunted by that question the Federal judge asked: Why is it that people don't want people to vote?
I want to assure you that your testimony today will be in the Congressional record.
The ability to vote was taken away from African Americans in 1900 with the passage of the literacy test.
In North Carolina, that is basically a nonstarter. There is very little voting fraud in North Carolina.
The real cost of voter ID in the State... puts a tremendous burden on the State and local boards of election without the...
It was aimed at all those measures that we had taken over the previous 30 years to ensure participation and access to th...
