I want to thank the Republicans for allowing us to move the hearing up an hour so that Ms. Abrams could participate.

I support mandating that all States provide voters with the option to vote by mail this November.

Your elected representatives are either for our democracy or against it.

the five States with least access to voting by mail, my home State of Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, are all States that had slavery.

the right to vote has been diminished for years, and it goes back to America's original sin, it is inscribed in our Constitution, which we fought a Civil War over and still never overcame.

It's astonishing to me, Anderson. He says he's the governor, and he's a nice guy, but, you know, you can be a nice guy: you need to act.

We're the volunteer state. We shouldn't volunteer: we should be forced to do this, because when we go out -- even if you don't -- you don't know you have the virus, you're spreading it to other people.

This is not a time to be concerned about personal freedoms. We're talking about the most serious public health crisis in the history of our earth.

The virus doesn't know county lines or city lines.

When it comes to a woman's choice, he's not concerned to personal freedom. When it comes to somebody being in possession of marijuana, he's not concerned about personal freedom.

If he sees the hospitals being overwhelmed, he ought to take action in spite of his concern about, quote unquote, 'personal freedoms', to protect Tennesseans lives.