We are going to vote probably out of this committee to take away the President's ability to use counterterrorism strateg...
This resolution would set a very dangerous precedent.
But this resolution stretches the definition of hostilities to cover non-U.S. military operations by other countries.
This is not what the War Powers Resolution has ever meant and it should not be used this way now.
Most of the members of this committee are new. Most of the members of this committee have never sat through a classified...
I have a tremendous respect for the chair, but I must say this first markup is a departure from the strongly bipartisan ...
It should be a no-brainer that we shouldn't be doing that, but unfortunately, sometimes people will put politics in fron...
The voter ID--things don't just happen in Texas by accident. I mean, there is a plan to do redistricting, voter ID, ever...
Texas became one of the leaders in the expansion of voter rights.
As the Texas Secretary of State when I was there, we didn't have that type of situation. It was just they take one case,...
Texas had as oppressive voting laws as any state in the union, including the three deep southern states.
The last time we had a redistricting, Texas grew by 4.3 million individuals. 65 percent were Hispanics.
If there's anything that's going to cost the State of Texas not only Members of Congress or other areas, it's going to b...
Thank you so much for having this hearing--this field hearing here in South Texas.
there were 30 members of the delegation, 21 were Democrats. Less than a decade, this reversed.
I'm a native Texan, and that says it all in terms of voting rights.
If we want to believe in one person, one vote, government of and by and for the people, then we must guard, protect, hol...
It's not just that on birth certificates. Another example, we put people on buses in Houston...
