Marcia Fudge

What specific outreach or strategies have you used to let these farmers know that they are now qualified?

Chief Justice Roberts, if you are listening, they should always be under preclearance.

That is the only time in this country that every single one of us is equal, is on election day.

People who are left out need to vote just out of spite so that these people will stop treating you the way that they do.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It is unfortunate that we are making it harder for people to vote and not easier for people to vote.

I think that the 2018 mid-term election is proof positive of the need for a stronger Voting Rights Act of 1965.

It is incumbent upon Congress to come up with a modern-day formula.

After all, it was the citizens of Alabama, many the city citizens of my Congressional district, that had the audacity to march, pray, and die for the sacred right to vote, which led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

It is very befitting, Madam Chairwoman, that we are here in Alabama, befitting that this Subcommittee would come here to Alabama to hold one of its seven field hearings.

I want you to know that your Congresswoman fights every day to represent not only you but people like you all across this country.

It's crucial that we address the ongoing challenges to voting rights in our communities.

I am more concerned now than when you came in about how easily our systems are compromised.

We have been traveling the country a bit just getting data and information about voting irregularities, voter suppression, et cetera.

What he said was: You give us new data so that Congress can come up with a new formula.

If citizenship is really the measure, then I wonder whether, in fact, we should have ever taken the rights of prisoners away.

It doesn't make it right. Separate but equal was the law of the land. It wasn't right, but Brown v. Board of Education changed it.

Laws are sometimes made by very flawed people who are doing things in their own self-interest.

The Constitution does not say if you miss a vote, we are not going to let you vote anymore.

If we call ourselves a democracy, we need to act like it. We need to ensure that every single person has a right to vote and that their vote is counted.

So the ballot design that we must put in place is so important, Madam Chairwoman, and I just wanted that to be in the record.

What makes us a great country is our ability to repair our faults.

I lived at a time when people that looked like me could not vote.

What have we done to the citizens of this Nation, people that we have made a promise to?

What we are doing across this country is deciding how we create the record that satisfies the decision in Shelby and gives the data appropriately to the Congress of the United States.