Steve Cohen

The question we are called upon in this context is to decide whether it have been high crimes or misdemeanors that warrant the extraordinary constitutional remedy of impeachment.

In this case, we give the mighty and the powerful every opportunity to oppress, to injure, and to harm without compensation.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are letting basically anybody walk into court and say, 'We think this entity is a foreign sponsor of terrorism.'

They are as threatened, if not more threatened, by ISIL as we are.

Saudi Arabia is not on the list, right?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I welcome today's hearing on Senate Bill 2040, the 'Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.'

Well, it is cash-registered justice is what it is.

It is, and I mean, they will take the money immediately.

Well, I will find it eventually. It is the power of Google, but they said it would just--and it is awful.

The taking away of earmarks was a real mistake, and it has hurt Congress.

We ought to have earmarks, and it is not just because it is in Article 1 and the unelected bureaucrats, but it is the oil that makes the machine run.

It is good to bring home the bacon, but it is also good to make this place get together.

Asking a local prosecutor to investigate the same law enforcement agency they work with and provide them with witnesses is implicitly wrong.

Unfortunately, what we have seen is that African-Americans are not treated equally when it comes to deadly force and police officers in this country.

The real problem is Medicare.

You do not look African-American, you do not look like the South.

What would you do about somebody that is born in the South, an African-American in 1940?