Jerry Nadler

These proposals divide us by sending a clear message that no one is welcome here until and unless they are fluent in English.

A desirable end cannot be promoted by prohibited means.

Having already spent an extraordinary amount of Committee time and resources in an effort to roll back the civil rights of women, persons with disabilities, gay and lesbian Americans, and other minorities...

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.

Some people said, and Congress decided to the contrary, that Section 5 was no longer necessary because nobody discriminated anymore.

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.

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.

Policies such as NYPD's stop and frisk policy would seem to have crossed that line.

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.

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.

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 division.

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 obligation to protect the right to vote.

The division is the guardian of our fundamental values--freedom of religion, the right to be treated fairly, the right to cast a vote in a free and fair election.

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.

You must implement 100 percent scanning as quickly as practicable within 5 years.

That is a decision that Congress made. It is the law. It is not up to the department to change that view.

Congress decided that a layered high risk--a layered approach of inspecting only high-risk cargo...was not sufficient.

The goal of 100 percent scanning is the right goal?

I am concerned that DHS simply decided it did not agree with the law and has never made any good faith effort to resolve the potential challenges.

Most organizations that work with families, such as World Vision, believe that the treaty will actually do a great deal to support families and protect children.

I do not believe the case has been made that parental rights, as protected by the Constitution, are in peril.

The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children.

The bond between parent and child has long been respected by our legal system as a fundamental right.