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

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.

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.

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

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…

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.

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?

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.

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

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