As I stated at the beginning of our first hearing, concern for this issue is bipartisan, and requires bipartisan perspec...
I would like to thank both of the witnesses for their very useful testimony.
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 am not a civil rights icon. I try to be a mechanic to put together legislation that will work.
I was proud to have served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when the Voting Rights Act was last reauthorized...
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, personally, think education is, by and large, a local issue.
It's amazing how many decades have gone by without that reform.
I support President Obama's ConnectED Initiative to connect 99 percent of students to broadband and high-speed wireless.
Why shouldn't this be, really, a local control and local funding?
I deeply appreciate the comments that Mr. Lewis has made because he is truly a civil rights icon.
By May 2010, they said they really do not want it, but in February 2011 it was contracted out.
But would we not really take a look at the cost of that though?
