Carolyn Bourdeaux: “For the American service men and women, the transition to civilian life can be difficult, especially so if they struggle…”

Georgia has a long history of undermining the right to vote, from the Jim Crow-era tactics of poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, to more recent tactics of voter-roll purges, exact-match policies, and partisan gerrymandering.

I thank Chairwoman Lofgren for yielding. After an election with record-breaking turnout in November, the Georgia General Assembly has recently introduced a number of partisan bills to restrict voter registration and make it more difficult…

It is pretty shocking. The efforts that the Republicans are going to to undermine the elections in Georgia and really undermine our democracy.

Minority-owned businesses and small mom and pop shops have been hit extremely hard by the economic effects of the pandemic, and this is why the bill provides critical assistance to businesses with 10 employees or less.