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Opening statement. Todays hearing of on current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution, civil rights and Civil Liberties over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the requirement of section 5 of the Voting Rights act. To consider other ways to strengthen that civil rights statue. Im not sure why we say reinvigoration. That seems to be one of the words we tossed around. Section 4 was cut out so we need to have a section 4 to activate section 5. Section 5 has been made dormant by the Supreme Court saying...

Act. This is just under two hours. The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Welcome everyone in attendance. Normally what we would do if i could give an Opening Statementt and the Ranking Member would give one a. Ms. Clark one of the witnesses has a 3 40 train which would have been easy to accomplish if it werent for the house of representatives schedule and with the permission of the member we are going straight to the statement and back to the traditional i talk, he talks, somebody else talks. Ms. Clark and thank you...

To order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the department of justice Civil Rights Division. With that, we will have the pledge of allegiance. Will the gentleman from arizona lead us in the pledge of allegiance . Our colleague, mr. Biggs marzano will be able to participate in the hearing today for the purpose of questioning the witness. If a member yields him time for that purpose, i will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Thank our witness for being here today. The Civil Rights Division is responsib...

Gives testimony before a house judiciary subcommittee. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, we are authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing on the department of justice civil Rights Division. With that, we will have the pledge of allegiance with the gentleman from arizona leading us to the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I thi...

Secure passage throughout gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid. Our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has more on the International Pressure for an independent investigation. Israelis will say, look, we will investigate this. We will see if there are lessons to be learned. Theyve said theyre going to do that. Whether they will do a kind of open, internationally supervised investigation of the kind thats being alluded to by some outside israel, i slightly doubt that. But they clearly recognise that theyre under pressure to explain what happened in the early hours of thursday ...