12/07/2009
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"We must use this opportunity to promptly craft a legislative solution that enables the Justice Department to effectively enforce the rights of minority voters within the contours of the Constitution."
"The distressing record of enforcement activity in Texas demands that reappear here in Houston to accept expert testimony on the current state of voting rights in America."
"There are provisions in the law not strong enough in the Voting Rights Act and in the Help America Vote Act."
"I hope that Republicans will again find the inner voice that led them to support this renewal back in 2006."