Steve Cohen

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 37,133 people lost their lives in accidents on U.S. roadways in 2017, or 100 people died each day in motor vehicle crashes.

These are chilling reminders that Congress needs to act.

This bipartisan bill has been endorsed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and I hope this committee will consider it soon.

Thank you, Chairwoman Norton for putting together this important hearing, and thanks to all the witnesses for being here today.

If President Trump would have come out after Charlottesville and said--condemned neo-Nazism and Klansmen, do you think that would have helped in the atmosphere of being--of White people standing up and saying White nationalism as being…

I don't want these hordes of immigrants and refugees. It is the Jews that are doing it. All Jews must die.

I have written a letter to Attorney General Barr asking him to look at the possible hate crimes or White nationalism that was exhibited there.

Letter to Honorable William Barr, U.S. Attorney General of the Department of Justice from Representative Steve Cohen, a Member of Congress of the State of Tennessee and a Member of the Committee on the Judiciary.

I commend my colleagues from the Helsinki Commission, including Co-Chairman Wicker, for their service in leadership roles.

As my colleagues, Senators Wicker and Cardin, wrote in the Woodrow Wilson Quarterly last fall, the OSCE's mission is as important as ever.

I congratulate Slovakia on the election of your new president, Zuzana Caputova on Saturday.

And is it possible that there is something in there that might amount to a coverup of knowledge of what the Russians were doing which would not amount to a conspiracy?

Since Watergate, it has been clear that the President can't abuse his powers to place himself above the law.

Before I recognize the chair for his statement, I do want to mention that President Obama, in my opinion, didn't give enough pardons, or commutations, to people with drug cases.

The fundamental purpose of the pardon power is to ensure fairness and proportionality in our criminal justice system and to provide a check against miscarriages of justice.

President Trump then issued a pardon to pardon Sheriff Arpaio of contempt and to take away the court's ability to enforce its orders.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and Merritt's mother.

Both Secretary Chao and Acting Administrator Elwell have publicly stated that the FAA welcomes scrutiny of the established certification process.

I do want to recognize once more Ms. Johnnie Turner, and I think it is particular--there are many Deltas here.

I don't think it is a huge list of practices. I do think that it is a way of ensuring that we are using this powerful alternative dispute resolution mechanism as effectively as possible.

Whatever you said you thought I was going to ask you.

I think there are probably some significance that the anthem 'Dixie,' which was so prevalent and popular in the South says 'Old times there are not forgotten,' and they are not forgotten with voting rights.

I am very, very interested in seeing us amend the Voting Rights Act, reauthorize the Voting Rights Act to continue.

Absolutely not, Chair. I am astonished by what we saw around the country in the choices to denigrate voters' access and ability to vote on the basis of race, on the basis of disability status, on the basis of language access.

And for all your good work that you do in Memphis and Shelby County.