Steve Cohen

I think it was a mistake for the Supreme Court to find that partisan gerrymandering is not justiciable because it clearly affects the rights of voters.

My hope would be that the committee takes that into account.

The court roundly ignored it.

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

I fear that that was the cause of the General Assembly's passage of the law, to inhibit people from doing mass voter efforts.

One makes some decisions about whether or not certain groups of people who tend to have one and not the other should be a part of the system.

We have since sought to sue to stop the implementing legislation that follows from that in state court.

The state was found to have intentionally discriminated with almost, as the bipartisan federal court said, surgical precision.

We partner with community organizations and we take as our focus, distinct from others, race equity as a guiding force.

I am extremely proud that we are here at the University of Memphis Law School, which is my alma mater.

Our esteemed colleague, Representative John Lewis, was beaten and bloodied as he marched in Selma, Alabama, to ensure that all Americans, regardless of race, had an equal right to vote.

I have asked and she has consented--Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee--to make a brief statement.

Well, we're calling it an impeachment investigation and it's probably a nuanced term, instead of impeachment inquiry.

The driver of the Baltimore schoolbus, repeated license revocations and suspensions over several decades.

Although the specific safety issues differed, the crashes shared one common factor, poor driver oversight by both the school districts and the contracted motor carriers, which resulted in unsafe operation of schoolbuses.

That is why we came out with our recommendations to the States to have new large schoolbuses be equipped with passenger lap/shoulder belts.

The NTSB also recommended automatic emergency braking technology. It is widely available.

There is no more precious cargo than our children and our schoolchildren whenever there is an accident.

Today I introduced H.R. 3959, the School Bus Safety Act, with Senator Tammy Duckworth, which implements those recommendations to make schoolbuses safer.

When it was in the ACA everybody thought it was great.

The NEWBORN Act gives a voice to children who have been taken by our country's ongoing crisis of infant mortality.

As the wealthiest country in the world, the United States, we should not be 55th.

This is different. It has a pilot program for the more difficult, highest districts with the highest risk.

I introduced H.R. 117, the Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act, which builds from his belief that healthcare is a basic human right.

Fifty-four developed countries have lower rates of infant mortality than the United States. As the wealthiest country in the world, the United States has no excuse.