Steve Cohen

Michael Cohen should get his credits and hopefully the Biden Administration will see that everybody that should get their credits get them.

The importance of it is serious about the Voting Rights Act and the place where our democracy presently rests in jeopardy.

Let's hope the filibuster does not kill democracy.

Perhaps this here is the fear, fear that we will build the kind of political power that is just.

Because that's the world I want to live in, and that's the world we should all want to live in.

What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that we will end redlining?

Fear that if and when we empower Black people, that will somehow disempower White people.

We are all in the midst of a moral crisis, and we know that.

I think it is appropriate at this point, after this published testimony, that I yield the remainder of my time to Ms. McBath, who knows firsthand what Georgia is doing in redistricting.

The last Voting Rights Act we had in 2006 was named for Fannie Lou Hamer, Mr. Johnson, for Rosa Parks, for Barbara Jordan, and Cesar Chavez, and other great civil rights leaders.

A lot of people in my district don't have copy machines in their homes.

Michael Carvin, representing the Arizona Republican Party in the Supreme Court, gave away the game when he boldly admitted this position in open court.

If we are to remain a true democracy, we must resist attempts to poison our election machinery with partisan interests that disenfranchise minority voters.

He wants to weaken voting rights because it will help him win. It's that simple.

Yet, this time, we have been met with total obstruction. The problem is not one Senator from West Virginia. The problem is a political party--the Republican party--that has given in to cynicism and adopted the worst arguments of those who…

An elected government that does not accurately reflect the participation of American voters, all American voters, regardless of race, is no true democracy.

Audubon is a proud supporter of the MRRRI bill (H.R. 4202) which will create a federal program to provide leadership, funding, and guidance to implement a 'whole of the river' approach to restore the river.

It was great to hear Assistant Secretary Connor focused on the Biden administration's Justice40 initiative and the emphasis on working and supporting and ensuring, you know, or analyzing the impacts of disadvantaged communities and…

I resolved to try to reform the nationwide permit process that gave them that opportunity, but also to work to ensure environmental justice issues are centered properly.

We had a pipeline here in Memphis, the Byhalia pipeline that proposed an oil pipeline in predominantly minority communities, and it was a heroic effort that led to their decision to not go forth with the pipeline because it went straight…

I was proud to sponsor provisions that were included to update the Army Corps' environmental justice priorities to promote meaningful involvement of minority and low-income communities in the formulation of future projects.

We need to establish a Federal advisory committee on environmental justice to better advise the Corps on these activities and actions that can be taken to ensure more equitable delivery of services and projects.

I was proud to join with Chairman DeFazio in urging the administration to reopen and reexamine the nationwide permits.

The proposed Byhalia pipeline, which has been withdrawn, fortunately, that was in my district.

It is our hope that it will become, and has become, more recreational.