"HR-4 is a great bill, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And I want to stress that because when we`re talking about the For the People Act and HR-1 that we`ve already passed in House, and that looks li..."
"But this idea we might have partisan legislature overturning will of the people and deciding who really won the election just based on who they wanted to win it is so dangerous."
"This is all incredibly dangerous to American democracy."
"What we`re talking about here is a coup."
"Thank you for coming before us again, and I'll just mention how impressed I've been with your responses on a wide range of topics."
"I think there's a lot of us who are concerned both with Iraqis and Afghanis who served with us."
"It's deeply concerning to both of us."
"I appreciate the leadership that you and President Biden have shown in not only protecting American democracy but trying to be a beacon, as we always have been, for democracy around the world."
"Stopping certain Americans from voting, you know, that’s how you lose your democracy. We’re having a very sanitized conversation about this pretending so to speak is it’s kind of Democrats and Republi..."
"I think our democracy is at a tipping point. What you just talked about here is overturning elections, stopping certain Americans from voting. That’s how you lose your democracy. We’re having a very s..."
"whatever they do in this bill, it is on top of Texas already being one of the hardest states in the nation to vote before they add anything to this."
"all it does really, Lawrence, is set national standards around voting so that our democracy is not radically different from state to state."