Jamie Raskin

If we could all just show some of the courage that Diane Nash showed when she was, what, 21 years old, risked jail time, went to jail while pregnant to stand up for her basic rights.

I am hopeful the Twenty-Eighth Amendment will be the Equal Rights Amendment that our chair has championed for a long time.

I am hopeful we will pass H.R. 1. I am hopeful it will get through the Senate because the House, of course, has already passed it.

Last year, the House passed two landmark bills to protect voting rights.

These abuses must end, and the House of Representatives has taken action to stop them.

Unfortunately, today many states are attacking the right to vote using tactics similar to those that civil rights pioneers battled for decades.

But the Congress of the United States, people forget, and I wish Mr. Roy were still here because apparently he as a staffer for Senator Cornyn forgot the key information about the renewal of the Voting Rights Act in 2006.

I favor a constitutional amendment for the same reason that I support all the constitutional amendments that have reversed reactionary jurisprudence by the Supreme Court.

All that Citizens United did was to transform every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund.

Citizens United did not enlarge the free speech rights of any citizen in the United States.

But here's the truth: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld MATS in its entirety, including the 'appropriate and necessary' finding.

Changing the co-benefit standard is what I believe this entire underhanded process represents.

The Trump administration's MATS proposal would reverse EPA's finding that it's appropriate and necessary to regulate mercury.

But the work isn't finished. Mercury fish consumption advisories remain in all 50 states, and still at least 200,000 children remain neurologically impacted each year from mercury.

Mercury causes all sorts of adverse health effects, which you've heard from the other people and I'm not going to repeat here today.

Reclaiming my time. I am thrilled to be able to assure the gentleman that we are taking up the exact Senate bill in its exact verbatim text.

The importance of this hearing and shining a spotlight continuously, never forgetting that that human capacity for hatred and evil has not diminished, is absolutely critical.

We are not a racist country, the country that elected Barack Obama President. We are not an anti-Semitic country.

If you don't remember the past, our future will look very blight.

I think that, in our country, anti-Semitism and racism both are the gateway to destruction of liberal democracy and equal rights for all of our people.

Anti-Semitism is not just a Jewish problem; it's everyone's problem, because it is typically historically a sign of the decay of democracy.

Zachor has two meanings: One, remember; and, one, don't forget.

We have got to get ahold on the convergence of rising white supremacist violence, and off-the-charts gun violence.

I particularly want to thank my colleague and dear friend, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, for her leadership and vision.

It's important to hold hearings like this one today.