It was interesting, you made a point that this accommodation of trade policy toward China not only maybe destroyed the textile industry in North Carolina and maybe destroyed the textile industry on Central and South America.

I commend you and I appreciate your graceful way of having this conversation.

Thank you to the members for your questions as well. The members of the Subcommittee may have additional questions for these witnesses.

Now, we all know that the Supreme Court has suspended the use of section 5, but section 2 continues to be the law of the land.

My time has expired. At this time I will yield back the balance of my time.

And let me thank you for mentioning our intent to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and we certainly plan to do that.

But the purpose of these hearings--and we are going to have 16 hearings.

we want to build a very significant legislative record that will be persuasive to the Supreme Court if this were ever challenged.

the most important thing is to--is to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

This historic bill will reverse the damage done by the Supreme Court in Shelby County and update the Voting Rights Act.

I certainly agree with you that we need to strengthen section 2 and not weaken it.

We are just concerned. We are concerned that not all staff and not all of our Members have been vaccinated.

The Constitution is unambiguously clear: Congress has a clear role in protecting this right to vote and ensuring equal, equitable access to the franchise.

Prior to the pandemic food insecurity was a pressing problem for our Nation.

As Andy Biggs said it, they are making the U.S. Government the logistics arm of the cartels.

The Biden administration policy is all aimed in the direction of speeding the passage of UCs from CBP to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Healthy Hunger Free Act set a process for evidence based Federal standards for food served throughout the school day.

It is critical that we, number one, partner with our States to protect these national treasures.