“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
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On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
If they were under the preclearance requirement, the courts could have stopped them from doing it before they did.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for preclearance to prevent discriminatory voting laws.

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