Steve Cohen

The criminal justice system and the justice system failed you, your son, and your entire family.

I read all those FISA applications in the Carter Page case and saw nothing wrong with any of them.

It is sad that they have been attacked on a regular basis over the last 2 years and people have had to question the men and women who are doing such outstanding work for us on our behalf.

I have significant concerns, and also, I am amazed here, you get an order that allows--it says meta data between U.S. and abroad and wholly within the United States.

Water creates us. Water makes us live. Water cleans up our lives, allows us to survive.

So please uphold this for the people's health and for a little bit that we can think of Richard Nixon in a positive way.

Why, despite these numbers, EPA has blocked implementation and is considering revising and weakening these standards?

So the old expression in the song 'Dixie,' 'Old times there are not forgotten' maybe has more of a current ring than one would understand.

I appreciate all the witnesses today and all of the testimony. I think it is a valuable hearing on the importance of the voting rights bill we have before us to set up a new standard in Section 4 and reactivate--restore Section 5 of the…

But you said--did you not say that since Shelby v. Holder purges have increased in preclearance States while they have not increased in other States?

Do not some jurisdictions purge you because you have not voted within the last 2 years, 4 years, 6 years, or whatever?

So the old expression in the song ``Dixie,'' ``Old times there are not forgotten'' maybe has more of a current ring than one would understand.

Thank you. Firstly, I would like to compliment our panel, the first panel I think I have ever witnessed that all got to 5 minutes and stopped. Great.

The onus, therefore, is on Congress to create a new coverage formula to reinvigorate the act's most important enforcement mechanism.

If they were under the preclearance requirement, the courts could have stopped them from doing it before they did.

In the absence of an effective preclearance formula regime, there is almost a certainty that these discriminatory measures will undermine the voting rights.

We need to find a new test to awaken the dormant power of Section 5.

I wish we could just introduce a song into our appeal of Shelby County v. Holder.

Thank you, Ms. Johnson, and thank you, Congresswoman Jackson Lee. And I think one last follow-up from the chairman.

It is unfair to take a chance on their backs, I think.

It is, as has been said earlier, a keen source of concern from our perspective that there is currently a need to have Section 5 or a replacement available.

If you saw the Twitter terrorists that I see, death threats still exist.

I am so honored to be the chair of the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Committee. It is the highest honor I could ever--and position I could ever hope to have.

I think that H.R. 4 does an effective job of doing that because it is a formula that will cover, that has the potential of covering different jurisdictions during different periods of time based on relatively contemporaneous records of…

I think the formula that Congress, that is in H.R. 4 actually responds effectively to the issues raised by the Supreme Court.