
Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 6\1/ 2\ minutes.
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Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 6\1/ 2\ minutes.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to point out to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that there was a higher percentage of Republicans who voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act than…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, Democrats claim H.R. 2062 merely conforms age discrimination and retaliation claims with current law regarding mixed- motive discrimination claims under title VII of the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, our colleagues on the other side say that workers feel they have been discriminated against. Well, we all have feelings and perceptions that are not accurate. I think my…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question are postponed…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 2062, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. Every worker--every worker--including older Americans should have the…

The Court, Chief Justice Roberts also acknowledged that voter discrimination continues to exist in the United States.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question are postponed…

The Voting Rights Act is a very serious piece of legislation that is deserving of our attention. It protects democracy.

I will be transferring this data, this information, to the Committee on the Judiciary, hopefully by June the 30th.

And, hopefully, within the foreseeable future, we will be able to write a formula, write a bill, and get it passed and signed by the President.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am going to repeat: Republicans hate discrimination in any form. We particularly do not want any kind of discrimination in the workplace, and we do not want…

It is almost sacred. And so we can, and we must, do better.

As our dear friend and my dear friend and former colleague, the late Congressman John Lewis, often said, the vote is precious.

The Supreme Court of the United States found Section 5 to be constitutional.

It was the Legal Defense Fund that led the way and financed the lawsuits and did all of the heavy lifting in those cases.

Section 5, as I recall, in the Court's decision was found to be constitutional. That is what America needs to know.

Democrats, including high-ranking officials in this administration, discarded the scientific method in favor of narrow political interests and their teachers union allies.