Richard Durbin actually said...

This is about the right to vote. And the Supreme Court has said and the Chief Justice in the course of his hearing before this Committee sai...

It is looking prospectively at preserving the right to vote.

Because in the past 15 years, those four States--Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana--have had five or more violations in the last 15...

the critical role played by Republicans in Congress in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act