This subcommittee hearing last about an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. The subcommittee on National Parks force and public life will now come to order. The subcommittees meeting today to testimony on h. R. 2420 the nationales museum of the americn latino act. And a Committee Rule, any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chair and the ranking minority member. Therefore ask unanimous consent that all of the members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if their civic to the clerk by 5 p. M. Today. During no objection, so ordered. In addition due to the broad interest in todays hearing i would like to askn unanimous consent that allo interested members be allowed to join us and participate on the dais. Before we get started i would like to take a point of personal privilege and have a moment of silence for our friend, our colleague, defender of justice and equality and humanity, mr. Elijahel cummings. Thank you all so much. Thank you for attending th
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History always must be revised. It must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. Because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and till we get it right. Frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. He came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. He did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. And massacres that took place. He visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. One of them asked douglas, what must we do after slavery . And better douglas said, Frederick Douglass said, we must learn or die. That is still true today. We have to learn our history, keep writing and rewriting it until we get it right. And we have to learn what has happened in the past in order to be able to govern ourselves in the present, and to plan for the future. So these three schola
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Republican or democrat. It is bipartisan and that is the right to vote. Mr. Speaker, i would like to yield as much time as he would like to consume to my colleague, ongressman veasey. Mr. Veasey thank you very much for organizing this very important special order today and something that is timely especially with the elections coming up. And i stand with my colleagues to bring awareness to the injustice to our members of our democracy and i want to start with the history from the 19 0s ap more recent history. In 19 5, the Voting Rights act sought to ensure that voters would never face the unnecessary obstacles to exercise the right to vote as american citizens. N 2013, shelby versus holder gutted the 19 5 Voting Rights act. And there was the subjew gation of seniors, to unfair punitive barriers that make it hard for them to vote and exercise their basic right as an american citizen. As a native of texas, i have een the effects of these oppressive laws in 3 states since the Supreme Cour