Both Secretary Chao and Acting Administrator Elwell have publicly stated that the FAA welcomes scrutiny of the established certification process.

I am very, very interested in seeing us amend the Voting Rights Act, reauthorize the Voting Rights Act to continue.

I think there are probably some significance that the anthem 'Dixie,' which was so prevalent and popular in the South says 'Old times there are not forgotten,' and they are not forgotten with voting rights.

The right to vote is the most fundamental right of citizenship in our democracy.

too many of our citizens, and particularly African Americans, were denied this most basic right

an historic march and before that, an attempted march thwarted by the Alabama State Troopers, led by our own John Lewis

And for all your good work that you do in Memphis and Shelby County.

I don't think it is a huge list of practices. I do think that it is a way of ensuring that we are using this powerful alternative dispute resolution mechanism as effectively as possible.

Whatever you said you thought I was going to ask you.

Absolutely not, Chair. I am astonished by what we saw around the country in the choices to denigrate voters' access and ability to vote on the basis of race, on the basis of disability status, on the basis of language access.

Thank you, sir.