Preclearance is an essential tool in preventing this dangerous practice.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered by most civil rights advocates the most effective civil rights statute ever enacted by Congress.

There are provisions in the law not strong enough in the Voting Rights Act and in the Help America Vote Act.

We should leave Section 5 as is, and re-do Section 4.

I hope that Republicans will again find the inner voice that led them to support this renewal back in 2006.

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.

I hope that members on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers of Congress will come together, and pass legislation to restore the full vitality of the VRA.

Every member of this committee, Democrat and Republican alike, should understand the consequences when the executive branch tells us that they will simply ignore a lawful subpoena from Congress.

If all we knew about President Trump were contained in the four corners of that report, there would be good reason to question his fitness for office.

I do not know what Attorney General Barr will choose. I do not know what my Republican colleagues will choose. I am certain that there is no way forward for this country that does not include a reckoning with this clear and present danger…

The President is also preventing us from obtaining information about voting rights, ACA litigation, and his cruel family separation policy, among other matters.

If left unchecked, this Act of obstruction will make it that much harder for us to hold the executive branch accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse.