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Science and medical expertise must guide them, not politics.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I certainly appreciate this hearing. Very intrigued by what we are doing here today.

RFRA has been used as a justification even recently--Senator Ted Cruz, here in the House, Representative Vicki Hartzler--for attacks on the District's human rights amendment.

I particularly appreciate this hearing because my own district, the District of Columbia, is regularly targeted by the minority for its laws regarding the LGBTQ community.

Purges that result in a person having to leave the voting place and come again, it seems to me, ought to be disallowed under our bill

I just want to cite for the gentleman from Georgia the extraordinary number of voters in his state, half a million, who were purged.

We know that some of that is true because Democrats took back this House last year.

I hope, particularly the witnesses who can give us perspective on what we have got to do now in renewing the Voting Rights Act, can talk about their own role.

My only regret is that our colleague, John Lewis, who, though not a member of this committee, would certainly be here today if he could.

This is not a trivial undertaking and it's not something that can be done on a part-time basis.

I completely disagree with Senator Graham and I've never heard him say that during the time I served as DNI.

I believe the incumbent in that position should be an intelligent professional or a national security professional and preferably somebody that's had some experience running in large organizations.

This is a partisan staunch supporter of the President.

I think to some extent the position of DNI and the staff, the Office of DNI which supports the DNI personally I think has become something of a hood ornament for this deep state fiction.

The Russians on the heels in the wake of their success in 2016 clearly they're going to do it again in 2020.

Well, obviously, yes. And others notably Mark Morell, former acting director of CIA has spoken about our concerns about a prosecuting attorney critiquing the judgment of intelligence analysts after the fact using what prosecuting…

I do think it is incumbent on us to do the research and understand the implications of climate change.

That statement I do, yes.