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This is a terrible thing in a democracy to have a legislature meet and pass a law whose purpose is to disenfranchise a segment of the population.
This was a move designed to control the population, to control the electorate, and to control the outcome of elections.
This is a real challenge for our democracy, and we have to start dealing with facts.
And so we are facing right now a myriad of new forms of voter suppression through voter caging and voter purging that will require and often requires private litigation by organizations dedicated to that.
H.R. 1 is an important and imperative response to the threats to our democracy.
Millions of voters and the very integrity of our democracy demands that this Congress act to restore the integrity of our elections.
It is imperative that we resist all efforts, whether from our international adversaries or from our own lawmakers at the local level, to weaken this effort.
But America--when we are deciding what we need to do, moving forward, many times America has to take a look backwards and our past in this area is painful and it is ugly and it is deep.
How long will we have to still, as we sit here in 2019, continue to have to defend a person's right to cast their vote?
This is not a partisan concern. This is about whether or not we are a healthy democracy.
I cannot imagine how anyone could think that voters waiting on line in the morning for four hours... was a good thing.
What excuse can we have as a nation for disenfranchising over half a million voters from all of the elections I just described?
We proved at trial that more than half a million eligible voters were disenfranchised by the ID law.
This committee has done it before. In 2006, Congressman Sensenbrenner led a successful effort to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and we need you to do so again.
A strong democracy should not be a partisan issue. Americans must have faith in their democracy and it is up to Democrats and Republicans to restore integrity and legitimacy to our institutions.
It is past time to build a 21st century democracy that represents our growing and diverse nation--a democracy that welcomes every person's voice and participation.