He's being utterly contemptuous to Congress. He has lied to the Congress.

Elections matter because maybe in this judiciary committee we will be able to have a hearing on H.R. 40 reparations.

Chairman Jackson Lee, who has been a great leader, too, and somebody who I have learned much from.

To give you an idea about how much the Congress has changed, when that 2006 law passed 330-somethning to 33, it was overwhelming republican majority.

This means that they couldn't take action, impede an election, and then force people to sue, and have dilatory tactics, and get through the election in an improper fashion.

Congress needs to create a new coverage formula that will reinvigorate the Act's most important enforcement mechanism.

The purpose of this preclearance requirement is to ensure that jurisdictions that were most likely to discriminate against minority voters... would bear the burden of proving that any changes in the voting laws towards minority voters were…

This is not going to happen. Trump and Barr would fire whoever tried to do it.

I think this is the most contemptuous conduct towards Congress we've ever had. He's lied to Congress, he's refused to attend, he's tried to dictate the terms of oversight and that's never happened before.

I have no reason to believe they'll do anything that is in keeping with the traditions of the relationship between the executive and the judicial as equal branches of government. I think they will stonewall at all costs because they…

I want to thank my chairman, Chairman Nadler, who has been historically involved in this issue.

Yes, well, we need to find a way to reuse or reduce our use of plastics and then reuse whatever possible.