He is a Republican from Wisconsin. He sponsored the Voting Rights Act. He was one of the few Republicans who supported the Voting Rights Act reauthorization.

we have seen a new state law enacted that would impose draconian penalties on third party voter registration groups

The onus is now on Congress to create a new coverage formula to reinvigorate the Act's most important enforcement mechanism--its preclearance requirement.

In the absence of an effective pre-clearance regime, there is a high risk that these discriminatory measures will undermine the voting rights of racial and language minority voters.

racially discriminatory barriers have taken on new forms since the days of Jim Crow

I have never been a proponent of that. I think you get as many sponsors as you can and if the Republicans don't join, so be it

in the absence of an effective pre-clearance regime, there is a high risk that these discriminatory measures will undermine the voting rights of racial and language minority voters

the onus is now on Congress to create a new coverage formula to reinvigorate the Act's most important enforcement mechanism--its preclearance requirement

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

You never used the term 'raising' to impeachable conduct for any of the 10 instances.

If you're not going to indict the President, then you just continue fishing.

We should not rush to amend the antitrust laws or break up companies by congressional fiat based upon false notions that being big is inherently bad.

Antitrust laws focus on the conduct of companies and whether that conduct is anticompetitive.

Did MySpace complain about what you were doing being anticompetitive, or did they just watch their ship slowly sink under the waves?

Breaking up big businesses simply because they are large would end up hurting lots of small businesses throughout the country.

Innovation and entrepreneurship are the hallmarks of the American economy.

Just because a business is big doesn't mean that it is bad.

I don't think we've put ads in newspapers either daily or weekly for over 25 years...

I have been on this Committee since I was first elected to Congress in 1978.

Then why did the Judiciary Committee turn around and make it nondischargeable?

We must do everything we can to make sure that innocent taxpayers are not forced to pick up the tab for unpaid student loans.

This bill would raise the level of debt that may be taken into a family farm bankruptcy under Chapter 12.

I am willing to consider that bankruptcy reform should allow them an easier chance to deal with substantial debt.

If we repeat that mistake the American taxpayers will rise up, saying the Federal Government lent them money, and they had no intention of paying it back because the bankruptcy court was across the street.

This bill offers a way to make Chapter 11 bankruptcy more accessible to small businesses.