Al Green

The tax to buy your birth certificate is something that I think is onerous to the 24th Amendment to the Constitution.

Because I'm from Louisiana, when I went to vote, and I chose not to use my proper ID... it becomes a tax.

Madam Chairwoman, if I may compliment you on your commentary with reference to the poll tax.

Over the course of the next 36 hours, I drafted a lawsuit on behalf of Congressman Veasey and others

There are scores of other changes we don't even know about that can't be done or dealt with because of the injury to Section 5.

I see his grave. And it has to have extraordinary security mechanisms, because even to this day, it's vandalized by white citizens in that community.

The Voting Rights Act has been so harmed by the Supreme Court and other judicial decisions

The first thing I learned, Congressman Green, was then Attorney General Abbott's tweet that voter ID laws would be in effect in Texas

The court found intentional packing and cracking against minorities.

We have a duty, a responsibility, and an obligation to the people who made it possible for us to have these positions to take up this cause of justice.

This is clearly an intent to intimidate and harass Latino voters.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice, but it doesn't do it on its own volition.

If we want to believe in one person, one vote, government of and by and for the people, then we must guard, protect, hold, and fight for voting rights, including Section 5.

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 I missed the following vote: =========================== NOTE =========================== January 16, 2019, on page H626, the following appeared: A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.Mr. GREEN of…

I don't see the need to make the changes.

Assuming that what you have said is entirely correct for our purposes, whether that was done by accident or with intent, it still does not negate her desire to have her anonymity as it relates to litigation.

Being beneath the law is honorous.

Why would you believe that it was necessary to expose her given that you and I know the benefits and detriments associated with exposure?

I have grown up with this belief that invidious discrimination has to be challenged.

I also believe that we talk a lot about no one being above the law. I do it myself quite often.

How does that messaging impact the sanctions that we have imposed?

How does that impact the effectiveness of the sanctions?

Whenever we have the opportunity to do something about invidious discrimination, we find clever ways to work around it and just go on with life as it is.

Texas is the 10th largest economy in the world.

I still am concerned about the historic position that it continually occupies in that of being twice that of White unemployment.