I would like to thank both of the witnesses for their very useful testimony.
The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State of Wisconsin, and Chairman, Over-...
The gentleman's time has expired. The votes have been moved up to 10:15.
We should all work together to update the Voting Rights Act and to ensure that voting is free, fair, and accessible for ...
I think it is absolutely critical that we make sure that the rights of those to register and vote in the United States, ...
I support President Obama's ConnectED Initiative to connect 99 percent of students to broadband and high-speed wireless.
things have gone off in a different direction from that day.
Part of that letter said that, in effect, that all of the phone calls, meaning the telephony metadata, had to be collect...
But they don't determine which specific phone calls are relevant pursuant to the statute. You do that.
I have been the author of the PATRIOT Act and the PATRIOT Act reauthorization of 2006.
You are having it both ways.
I deeply appreciate the comments that Mr. Lewis has made because he is truly a civil rights icon.
I, personally, think education is, by and large, a local issue.
I am not a civil rights icon. I try to be a mechanic to put together legislation that will work.
Why shouldn't this be, really, a local control and local funding?
It's amazing how many decades have gone by without that reform.
I was proud to have served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when the Voting Rights Act was last reauthorized...
Certainly, one of the issues that my chief of staff is grappling with here in Congress, never having really to worry abo...