"What is most distressing is that some of the same people who undermined and discredited the Civil Rights Division while they were there have now made a career of making false allegations against the d..."
"I am especially concerned about efforts around the country to rob duly qualified Americans of their right to cast a vote in a free and fair election."
"If our civil rights laws mean anything, and I know that not all Members joined the overwhelming bipartisan majority in voting to extend the Voting Rights Act, then it must be that we have an obligatio..."
"The police must use all the tools available to make our communities safe, and I can report that New York's finest do an outstanding job under sometimes very difficult circumstances."
"Policies such as NYPD's stop and frisk policy would seem to have crossed that line."
"I hope to hear from Assistant Attorney General Perez about the division's efforts to ensure that those charged with enforcing the law all around the country are themselves complying with it."
"I think it behooves us that before scurrilous accusations are made or at least at the same time scurrilous accusations are made, we see the article and the context."
"Last December, 34 Members of Congress, myself included, wrote to the Department of Justice urging an investigation."
"Some people said, and Congress decided to the contrary, that Section 5 was no longer necessary because nobody discriminated anymore."
"My question to you is, I assume that the department would make a commitment that you are not going to offer a proposal to criminalize protected speech."
"if there is voter ID, then Romney wins the presidency."
"Government access to content and communications should require a search warrant issued based on a showing of probable cause."