Thank you, Ms. Johnson, and thank you, Congresswoman Jackson Lee. And I think one last follow-up from the chairman.

It is, as has been said earlier, a keen source of concern from our perspective that there is currently a need to have Section 5 or a replacement available.

I wish we could just introduce a song into our appeal of Shelby County v. Holder.

If you saw the Twitter terrorists that I see, death threats still exist.

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

I think that H.R. 4 does an effective job of doing that because it is a formula that will cover, that has the potential of covering different jurisdictions during different periods of time based on relatively contemporaneous records of…

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.

I am so honored to be the chair of the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Committee. It is the highest honor I could ever--and position I could ever hope to have.

I think the formula that Congress, that is in H.R. 4 actually responds effectively to the issues raised by the Supreme Court.

The court roundly ignored it.

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.