by dealing with issues around cyber security and ensures states like georgia that have voter i.d. laws, that those laws are intended to make sure eligible people can vote. but they're not used to cherry pick certain voters. and so the bill provides a baseline for voting so that you have access to that basic american right no matter where you live. it's the most american thing we can do. it's the most important thing we can do this congress. and i think that as important as other issues are if we fail to do it we will have failed the people who sent us here in the first place to debate about all these issues. and i think that history will rightly judge us harshly if we fail to address voting rights in this defining moment. >> among the nine of you who worked on this, did you talk about procedural matters? if senate republicans don't come along, you make a great case on the merits, you make a great case in terms of the nonpartisan appeal of this, the all-american