Steve Cohen actually said...

It is time that we, as the people's House, rise to this threat to our democracy and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

This legislation in Texas would strip the ability of Harris County to do that.

We can't just fold up our hands and give it to the State legislators because, if we did that, we know we would be back in Jim Crow times.

This is why Congress had repeatedly reauthorized the pre-clearance provision on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis.