Jerry Nadler

It is our responsibility to demonstrate not only with our words, but by our actions that we can and will keep this republic intact and its people unified.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

The song 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' has been a beacon of hope to generations of Americans.

I am just hopeful with Ted's leadership, I am confident that as we came together with the passage of the Music Modernization Act in 2018 and did it in a bipartisan way, Democrats, Republicans, the left, the right, Progressives…

It is time once and for all to create a system that is platform neutral and that respects artists.

The Biden Administration has also made important improvements to the implementation of The First Step Act in the past year.

Three years ago, we passed the ground-breaking piece of bipartisan legislation, The First Step Act of 2018.

Ironically, they are so intent on blocking legislation to strengthen our democracy that they will not even permit the vote--the most basic democratic act, the majority vote.

For example, in Georgia, several lawsuits have been filed challenging the State's new congressional legislative maps, alleging that they violate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Disturbingly, since 2020, we have also seen States changing their election administrative laws and processes to politicize the counting of votes already cast.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice, between January 1, 2021, and December 7, 2021, more than 440 bills with provisions that restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 States.

It's impossible to think of the Voting Rights Act without thinking of our dear colleague, John Lewis, who we all miss greatly.

Sadly, that seems like ancient history now.

As President Biden pointed out in his recent speech in Atlanta, the Senate voted 98 to nothing to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in 2006.

Legislation to protect the fundamental right to vote in fair elections free from racial discrimination faces united obstructions from Republicans in the Senate.

Today's hearing on voter suppression and continuing threats to democracy comes at a critical point in our history.

The need for an independent immigration court system could not have been clearer under the Trump Administration.

The immigration court system is highly susceptible to political interference.

As important as this legislation is, my brief remarks were enough to explain the bill for the record. Therefore, with the time remaining, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Perry Apelbaum for more than 30 years of tireless…

We have additional speakers. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline), a member of the Judiciary Committee.

I'm particularly concerned that the Supreme Court may resurrect the nondelegation doctrine as a means of undoing the ability of agencies to implement statutes such as the Clean Air Act.

I support this legislation very strongly.

I think that's not what this body should be doing. This body should be protecting these women and other women like them.

They will do anything, this five-member majority of the Supreme Court, to enforce these arbitration clauses because it protects Big Business.

This is not what they intended. This is what a Supreme Court intent on protecting corporations intended beginning in the 1990s.