Steve Cohen actually said...

"In this case, we give the mighty and the powerful every opportunity to oppress, to injure, and to harm without compensation."

"I thought we should be dealing with and continue to feel we should be dealing with Voting Rights Act and deprivation of rights under color of law."

"And this Committee has not had one hearing on the Voting Rights Act, maybe as important of a law as exists to give people the most fundamental right: the right to vote, to have a say in who they elect..."

"I might as well have gone to the South Indian Ocean and tried to find that airplane. It would have been easier than to find a Republican who was willing to put his name on a Voting Rights Act."