The House is honored today to welcome a great theologian and humanitarian, my friend and constituent, the distinguished William J. Barber, II. I have known Bishop Barber since he was a college student. A native of Roper, North Carolina…

Unfortunately, the High Court decided that political gerrymandering is not protected by the Federal Constitution.

Now the Supreme Court is going to have to decide whether or not State courts have any authority whatsoever over election laws within the State.

The State supreme court ruled that the congressional map was an extreme, intentional partisan gerrymander and directed legislature to fix it.

I represent one of thirteen districts in North Carolina. And, as all of you certainly know, the Rucho case originated in my State, as well as the Moore v. Harper case.

We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.

I listened very carefully to the gentleman from Arkansas, and I respect his position, but I just want to remind my colleagues that in my State and most States these organizations that are not nonprofits who care about the environment and…

I thank Mrs. Dingell and the ranking member for their courtesy, and I also thank the Natural Resources Committee for all the work they do. I am not on that committee, but I have great respect and admiration for the committee and its…

In closing, let me thank the gentlewoman from Michigan for supporting this amendment. It is a very simple amendment. It is a very commonsense amendment. It will allow and authorize nonprofit organizations, as Mrs. Dingell said, to compete…

Just because you have high turnout doesn't mean that bad laws aren't barriers to voting.

The ability to cast a ballot free of undue burden and discrimination is the cornerstone of our participatory democracy.

In conclusion, our democracy works best when every voter can make their voice heard.

Floridians deserve free and fair elections, not more restrictions on access to the ballot.

Thank you for the incredible work that you do in the House of Representatives.

more people, everybody with legal access to voting and we must stop the undermining of our confidence in elections.

Let me say thank you to our colleague, and fellow Member of the Committee on House Administration, my friend Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon of the Fifth District.

Thank you, Congresswoman Scanlon.

Let me also just say to my colleagues that I had every intention of being with you today.

The Voting Rights Act has transformed American politics and we are on a good trajectory.

what is the one thing, one key thing that you think Congress should do to improve access to the ballot for all of your fellow Pennsylvanian citizens?

Democrats are continuing to fight to get the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed and the For the People Act passed.

Let's just keep fighting, let's keep pushing, and let's keep representing the people that elect us every 2 years.

We want to minimize opportunities for misinformation, and we want to minimize opportunities to overturn an election.

What was struck down was Section 4, which is the formula that decides which States, which counties, which cities are included in Section 5.