We are really here to get to the bottom of the truth and to take the facts where they lead us.

One powerful example of this extraction cited in the report is the case of activist investor Carl Icahn, who purchased 3.4 billion shares in 2013 and 2014, and from other shareholders, then successfully demanded that Apple accelerate its…

Nobody wants to be first on anything. Nobody wants to be the leader, but it happened, and then it has evolved now to Latinos, and now we are moving to naturalized citizens. We are moving to Asians.

When I went to vote for myself in the primary for Congress, there was another scheme that we haven't talked about, and that is when they consolidate precincts.

I was kind of reflecting on a purging letter that I got telling me that I may not be eligible to vote.

I filed a bill to pretty much codify what the case had said.

I said, 'Get real. I am a state senator, you know. You have to be eligible to vote to run for office.'

Thank you to all the panel for being here because this is something that directly impacts so many of us in and around Texas.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for putting this hearing together. I think it is a very important topic...

Housing for poor people, not profits.

the ERA and what we are talking about here today was never mentioned in any of those cases, was it?

The National Housing Trust Fund program at its current funding level, all of the funding, all of the dollars go to States in order for them to get the funds out to developers to build and preserve apartments for the lowest-income people.