I just walked in in the middle of this amendment, but it's very similar to an amendment we took up last night, and it's equally wrongheaded. Aside from the fact that it's almost irrelevant, this amendment, as I read it, says that none of…

I want to congratulate and thank the sponsors of this amendment for introducing it. The amendment begins to break down the taboo in American politics about discussing drug policy intelligently. It also begins to, hopefully, result in the…

I, too, rise in opposition to this amendment. We have had amendments and even bills on the floor in the past that were just as misguided, and they all take the same form or a similar form: either an amendment to say that no fund shall be…

Is the gentleman aware that, if the equipment is not ready, then under the law it is not readily achievable and that it doesn't have to be done at that point and that the DOJ has already met with the industry and has told them this?

I must say I object to the tenor of your remarks just now.

They have told this Committee on many occasions they require 2 weeks.

If this hearing had been held next week, they would have been here.

the accessibility of swimming pools and other recreational facilities remains a problem for people with disabilities around the country.

I ask unanimous consent to place in the record a letter from the Department of Justice from October, 2010.

The evidence that the States themselves put forward show that minorities will, in fact, be disproportionately harmed by these laws.

We need to examine the unprecedented array of State restrictions on the right to vote.

If we are going to turn these hearings into veritable able kangaroo courts, then we should drop the pretense that we are actually engaged in objective oversight or legitimate fact finding.