Your office is under attack because government is under attack, and the government that is under attack is the government that takes care of the poorest.

We all should look to the people that are being hurt and injured and give them the benefit of the doubt whenever you can.

Once again, we're holding a hearing that's designed to make the case that Congress should tilt the playing field in favor of corporate defendants and against those harmed by their wrongdoing.

Not exactly what I live by. Not exactly what I think a law should live by.

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.

Mr. Speaker, I am dressed in a seersucker suit. Most people from the South would recognize that, and traditionally people from the country and the South and the fashion industry would say you are not supposed to wear seersucker after Labor…

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.

We should not be the Gulag of the world which we pretty much are, putting more people in prison than any other country.

That is what America is about. You go around the country, and what do people talk about? America, civil justice system, the rule of law, and people getting democracy and the right to vote.