G. K. Butterfield: “May I inquire how much time each side has remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from North Carolina has…”

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…

I want to remind my friend from Arizona who just spoke that this bill sets uniform national standards for States that choose to require identification to vote. The bill gives States the flexibility--flexibility--to choose whether to…

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

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.