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There is no question that it had an enormous effect on the rights of African Americans to vote, especially in the South.

We have had success from other equality acts passed; largely, the ones in the 1960's.

Mr. Chairman, this is an important hearing to be held.

It was my great honor to enforce the employment discrimination part of that Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.

I don't expect anything to happen.

We cannot do anything on the weekend, but at the very least, we should not be cutting them or reducing what they receive during those five days.

What we need to do is to monitor the people who have been in China recently who are here in the U.S.

It is impossible, impossible to cutoff the flow of people from China to the United States.

We ought to be reaching out to them to see what we can do to help them.

The only practical thing we can do is to monitor those who are coming here to this country, who are bringing medicines to this country, who are bringing goods.

It is my studied opinion that we will never reduce that to zero due to trade and due to travel of Americans and Americans' family members.

I do not think so, Congressman. And, again, this is one reason why I think we need a high-level coordinator at the White House who can be in touch with foreign governments at other high levels.

I think H.R. 2166 is vital legislation. I hope this committee and the Congress will act on it, bipartisan as well, as it should be.

This isn't a partisan issue, and I reiterate that this is not a partisan issue.

The first responsibility of this government is to keep the American people safe.

My claim is that he should have done it or should be doing it.

I certainly do not think so, Congressman Perry. I think the WHO is performing better now than it was during the Ebola response 5 years ago.

There is no restriction on Americans going back and forth.