"I would like to ask respectfully that the Chairman consider such a hearing so we can get to the bottom of this."
"The voter rights section, the civil rights section of the Department of Justice has been clearly off track across the years."
"it is very critical that that budget have the correct funding for the civil rights division"
"We are still working on Hamtramck, Mr. Conyers, and a number of Michigan jurisdictions to provide assistance."
"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..."
"What we need is greater enforcement of the Federal Voting Rights Act."
"voter ID is, as has been said so many times, a solution in search of a problem"
"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."
"Today, we're going to look at the government's actions during World War II."
"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."
"There is additional history involving other populations that were also mistreated during World War II that have not been sufficiently examined."