According to House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, the president's former attorney and fixer will appear b...
The Voting Rights Act has transformed the political landscape of the South and it is a good piece of legislation.
We have reached a point now in our history when it has risen to the level of extreme partisan gerrymandering.
House Democrats feel very strongly about it, and we are determined to have full and effective enforcement of the Voting ...
We focused for years on racial gerrymandering, but now we are awaiting the decision on political gerrymandering.
I understand that Citizens United has created some very difficult, seemingly intractable problems in the electoral proce...
when the Supreme Court in 2010 opened the floodgates on corporate treasury money going into politics, it created a probl...
Well, whose free speech rights do you think are at stake when Exxon Mobil spends money? Is it the CEO or is it the share...
Do you favor disclosure to the shareholders of all political contributions by the CEOs of the company?
I mean, I think that is the heart of the problem that Mr. Earle has identified.
I think the Supreme Court has foreclosed it both as to contributions and expenditures.
I was quite amazed that when we first took this up in the Judiciary Committee there were people defending gerrymandering...
But your group is interested in free speech, right? I am not asking you an unfair question here.
I am impressed by the provisions in H.R. 1 that deal with voter registration modernization, automatic voter registration...
All the Paycheck Fairness Act is trying to do is get employers to really pay attention to what is the consequences of th...
Why...we wouldn't view that as going back to the bad old days...I can't understand for a moment why anyone would support...
it seems to me, to claim, as we are hearing from a lot of the Members on the other side, that they absolutely want to pr...
I can't understand for a moment why anyone would support that kind of a policy shift.