Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

purges that result in a person having to leave the voting place and come again, it seems to me, ought to be disallowed under our bill

I just want to cite for the gentleman from Georgia the extraordinary number of voters in his state, half a million, who were purged.

My only regret is that our colleague, John Lewis, who, though not a member of this committee, would certainly be here today if he could.

I hope, particularly the witnesses who can give us perspective on what we have got to do now in renewing the Voting Rights Act, can talk abo...