Constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work in the areas of voting rei rights and election law a
The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work i
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Lunchtime dialogue series. I want to thank the people in the rook in washington, d. C. As well those Live Streaming and those watching on cspan 3. Im i wonder how many there are. Im janet, im director of the group. What we do we do a lot of work in the country quipping local leaders to build prosperous region. Since 1985, aspen as focus its work in rural. Through our experience we have learned full well that Rural America is not fly over country. Rural america is live in, start a business in and start a family in country. So recent media headlines have focus nation acute rural challenges, inadequate job student, infrastructure challenge, Community Health crises and more. Those are real but a deeper understanding reveals important picture of innovation and using local are source to turn challenges into opportunity. We want to highlight stories of innovation that are build on local assets from three different parts of Rural America. We are joined today by the people you see here. Bureau