Nobody in the service can be sued--nobody--whether you lost a limb or anything else.

None of the arguments supporting Feres have ever struck me as persuasive.

It is too late to expect that the Supreme Court will overrule Feres. The restoration of the rights conferred on service members by the Federal Tort Claims Act can only come from Congress.

Feres was wrongly decided. The Federal Tort Claims Act does not exclude service members from its coverage.

I would like to ask respectfully that the Chairman consider such a hearing so we can get to the bottom of this.

Deceptive practices...has become an endemic problem.

What we need is greater enforcement of the Federal Voting Rights Act.

I am interested in how we can get a more positive attitude about voting in America, and it has to come from the Federal Government.

Now everything in a democratic system turns on the fairness of the voting process, to choose who governs, at every level.

These two issues--the need for federal legislation banning deceptive practices and Justice Department enforcement of federal voting rights protections--are the focus of my testimony today.

We have come through two presidential elections that were highly controversial.

We are still working on Hamtramck, Mr. Conyers, and a number of Michigan jurisdictions to provide assistance.

I want to thank you for your leadership in combating deceptive voting practices.

I want to thank you for your leadership in reintroducing the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2009.

voter ID is, as has been said so many times, a solution in search of a problem

There is additional history involving other populations that were also mistreated during World War II that have not been sufficiently examined.

We need to carry on the discussion that Chairman Nadler raised in terms of how we comprehensively and effectively approach the issues raised here.

I still think we need to have a hearing on ACORN because they have been made the poster child of illegal voting in America...

Reconciliation and justice can only come after the truth is known, and as commissions of inquiry have played important roles in the United States and abroad.

We have a duty to make our elections open to all eligible citizens, conduct them fairly, and make them transparent.

There is a consensus that the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in the 1980s was particularly effective in confronting the historical record.

This bill will not only prevent these practices under federal law, but will provide the necessary administrative remedies.

If you intend to deceive voters, you will be punished.

To have the former Chairman of the Committee worry about ACORN as if that is a serious problem, why don't we, Steve, have a hearing on ACORN?

The voter rights section, the civil rights section of the Department of Justice has been clearly off track across the years.