Summer Lee

The law has to change in accordance with our changing standards and the changing conditions of our country.

Hate is too much of a burden, and he is right. We must act with love.

How can Americans be growing up in a country with such abundance and grow up with such fear of each other and of its own government?

It is to protect American citizens.

The record for Texas is poor.

I want to thank your staff. We saw her again--your district staff that is doing such an excellent job.

I completely agree with you. I think that we really need to think about how this affects those marginalized communities and make sure that as we are proposing this legislation that we are considering those barriers.

I think it would be important--you think it would be important--to refer again to the importance of, one, not criminalizing voting, but two, to ensure ex-felons can vote and that it should be clearly stated.

I think that provides dramatic evidence that some of what you have already been talking about, which is that once you took Shelby County v. Holder--took that umbrella away from the rainstorm you started to see a proliferation of Voting…

Voting has nothing to do with party affiliation or partisanship. I would almost consider it a birthright.

I want to likewise thank the purity of voting.

It is critical that we have that oversight protection to be able to get people that were represented--that we want to represent us, especially for communities of color.

Redistricting definitely would be very critical to communities of color. Georgia, as you know, based on Census data, is going to be a majority minority state.

These are not innocent actors. You know, things like H.R. 4 are specifically designed to get to the serial offenders.

But I want to really highlight the Indian Nation in terms of the language concerns and the threatening atmosphere that pulls opportunity in voting under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment by where we are today.

It is crucial that we have a solid findings in law even though it can go up to the Supreme Court that we can operate under.

I think the voting rights--H.R. 4, H.R. 1--are so crucial, because if it can stand it means that it can operate in spite of changing administrations.

We have seen a downward spiral of voter empowerment since Shelby.

I think it would be important to refer again to the importance of, one, not criminalizing voting, but two, to ensure ex-felons can vote and that it should be clearly stated.

Let us not discourage experimentation with those methods because in many ways they can be better than the traditional single-member district remedy for minority vote dilution.

Thank you. That is the record that we are trying to create.

H.R. 1 is the global--I think we have an opportunity to hone in on some of these aspects of what we are hearing as we go around the country and the real testimony of people.

I hope for it to be a part of the federal language so that at least people think twice before utilizing that power.

But should our bill give relief by using that terminology in the--even though we are focused around 5 and 4 but gives--you have some terminology about criminalization?

You don't get rid of the polio vaccine because you think you have overcome polio.