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Department that it will be expanding its voting rights contingent working with other agencies to combat the suppression campaign by state legislators? is it enough, especially as -- being installed in the senate? >> now, it is not enough. look, it is one thing to put an investor station in place and that the results and what we call after the fact investigations. elections would be over. people would be serving in office and it would be years for us to find out what may or may not have gone wrong. we need to do prevention stuff and this is the lesson we have. it's got a lot of prevention stuff...

Senate. >> no, no, it is not enough. look, it is one thing to put an investigation in place that could result in what we call, after the fact, investigations. elections will be over, people will be serving in office and it may take years for us to find out what may or may not have gone wrong. we need to do prevention stuff, and that's what this legislation is for. hr-1 has a lot of prevention stuff in it. hr-4, what we call the review that we make before a law is put into place or a process it put into place. so we should do what is necessary to investigate when something may go wrong, but we ...

To do is trying to reach some compromise on the piece of legislation that we were for those punitive things and mix some kind of effort to have some prevention bill into the law. however, we lost the election that following november, and when we lost our republican friends defunded so much of the prevention stuff, increased funding for so much of the punitive stuff, the bill got out of whack. the whole law did. and that's what got us to where we are today. nobody gives us credit. we revisited that in 2010. i worked very closely with bobby scott, congressman smith on the republican side, and we...

Year. >> to the people running for president right now, who are using the '94 bill as the dividing line between how things used to be and need to be now, do you have a word for caution for them, in terms of how they understand what was done in '94? >> well, i wish some people would do a little more research to see exactly how we got to where we are. the fact of the matter is we on the democratic side did a job in putting in the kind of prevention programs, the preventative funding in the bill. and we got to understand on the punitive side the republicans wanted that and we found a compromise t...