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Know. we marked 150 years of the emancipation proclamation. we just marked 100 years of the women's suffrage march in washington, d.c., and here we are, you know, still fighting the fight about protecting the most precious right that we have in our democracy, the right that is preservative of every other right and it's, you know, it's amazing because, i mean, so many people died for this right to vote, got beaten for the right to vote, and here we are in 2013 still fighting to protect it, and that's a shame. >> and here you have a few hundred people walking across that bridge just a few days a...

Special privilege from the courts when we're talking about changes in elections. times change and i think it's a veiled issue for the justices to raise. but i also want to point out in your interview earlier with the reverend martin luther king's daughter earlier, the ceremony today is so important to not only remember how far we've come but, as she said so eloquently, make sure we don't go back to where we came from. >> i would add to what alice said. hear a lot about the rhetoric and heard a lot about singling states. all states, all 50, are singled out in another section of the voting right...

And now the high court has stepped in to say, you know what, maybe all of you senators and all of you congressman maybe got it wrong. >> that's always the question the court faces when it seeks to undo the democratic will of the legislature, and there is supposed to be in legal jargon a very high bar for doing that, and when you have, as vice president biden pointed out, a law that has been reauthorized by a man who ran for president on a segregationist dixieocrat platform, along with many other republicans who i say deserve credit on this issue. the republican party moved a tremendous amount ...

Congress of the united state which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives. >> i now yield to the gentleman from michigan, mr. wahlberg. >> section ii. the house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. bill: and on they shall continue taking turns there. martha: a little bit of civics class from the house of representatives. bill: we wanted to share that with you as it gets u...

Costs for every percentage point increased in the nation's participation by mail. but beyond the opportunity to save taxpayer money, consider this, when you participate in the census, you are honoring our nation's founding fathers including james madison and thomas jefferson and you are honoring our constitution. article i, section ii requires a census of the population every ten years to ensure the fair allocation of representatives in congress. so i ask you, do your civic duty, mail back this form and be counted. it will help our nation, it will save all of us money, and most importantly, yo...