Steve Cohen actually said...

I appreciate all the witnesses today and all of the testimony. I think it is a valuable hearing on the importance of the voting rights bill ...

Thank you. Firstly, I would like to compliment our panel, the first panel I think I have ever witnessed that all got to 5 minutes and stoppe...

The onus, therefore, is on Congress to create a new coverage formula to reinvigorate the act's most important enforcement mechanism.

If they were under the preclearance requirement, the courts could have stopped them from doing it before they did.