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I actually think that if it is a brief summary, it actually could be counterproductive to the president because it won't resolve anything.

The hard question is, does Mueller have to provide all of those answers or in this world with Congress and other investigators like the Southern District, can they carry the ball forward?

Polling places need to be frozen in place, and no changes can be made unless the county has done a thorough and public study of its racially discriminatory effects.

Preclearance is the answer for all of them, because without preclearance, these local elections officials can just get away doing whatever they want under the radar.

The effects of the incompetence, whether willful or not, is creating a barrier

Outside of Gwinnett, it is zero.

I would argue that, you know, if the FBI didn't at least think about, you know, the connection of the Trump campaign or the President himself with the Russians, you know, they'd almost be -- they could be open to criticism for not looking…

The 25th Amendment, though, and I think appropriately so, has a very high bar to invoke.

And the last thing our Founders would have wanted is for the president to be able to do on his own what the Congress of the United States says you can't do.

This is something presidents don't do for really good reason.

The idea that the president is declaring a national emergency just because he didn't get the votes in Congress, that's not an emergency.

I think it is important that you quickly held this hearing so we can learn from it.

This act does something that I think most of us don't even, may not even recognize to be discrimination.

The Equal Pay Act was the first of the great Civil Rights Acts. And we are way overdue in bringing it up to date and strengthening it as the DeLauro bill does.

The U.S. economy is now in a good place. At the moment, unemployment is low, prices are near 2 percent inflation, so we're in a good place now.

This bill, too, was considered in the Republican House. We are considering it here in the Democratic House. I certainly hope that the urgency of this bill is apparent. I have no further speakers other than the gentleman from New Jersey…

The mandate of Congress is much broader than Mueller

For example, what about the many who work side by side such as the civil servants who guard our borders who are hardly different from the soldiers who do the same thing around the country? The 2.6 percent pay raise proposed here does not…