The committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning to i want to thank amy colleagues for joinin us today. Id like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing. Shawna bashard, sean cooksy and alan dixon are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections committee. As our witnesses are joining us remotely i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, its a significant president ial nomination, and significant to the work of this committee. And i know youre proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about a couple of nominees and then im going to turn to another committee member, senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Allen dickerson is the nominee to be a member of the federal Elections Commission for a term, expiring on april the 30th, 2025. Mr. Dickersons been practicing law for 20 years, primarily in
Years ago. It was then that Irena Webster and Barbara Spencer dunn joined with the woman who became my first boss at the aspca. They had the vision to get right to support the works the Parks Service was doing to protect the africanamerican experience. Sadly, irena passed away at the start of this year, and i wanted to take a moment to talk about the preservation of the history to achieve black Voting Rights to remember my boss, my friend, and the true pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make conservation and preservation organizations like npca more inclusive. For our panel today, people will understand that it is wideranging, multifaceted and current. Its still going on. What we want to do with this panel of experts and people who are my friends, folks that i admire, is to get their insights on this issue, but maybe in more specific and direct ways. We have one person, Josephine Bolling mccall, who actually lived through the struggle for Voting Rights. Well hear from josephine
To not only limit diverse voter turnout but to deconstruct voter platforms from long lines and closing poll stations to Voting Machines not even working and trumps full scale assault on mail in voting the 19th amendment and the fight for voters rights is alive and well on tuesday former Vice President and 2020 democratic president ial nominee joe biden made history by announcing his running mate us and our common Harris Harris is the 1st black Vice President ial candidate in u. S. History but even though harris is more than qualified for the role shes facing backlash the kind that is typically only reserved for women women for whom ambition is seen as a bad word and strength is seen as unladylike harris is also taking fire for her race shes even being slut shamed with fox news host Tucker Carlson implying that harris slept her way to the top and that her success is largely dependent on the minute shes dated a sneer that isnt new fox news darling and favorite conservative voice tom mill
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Well on tuesday former Vice President and 2020 democratic president ial nominee joe biden made history by announcing his running mate u. S. Senator Harris Harris is the 1st black Vice President ial candidate in u. S. History but even though harris is more than qualified for the role shes facing backlash the kind that is typically only reserved for women women for whom ambition is seen as a bad word and strength is seen as unladylike harris is also taking fire for her race shes even being slut shamed with fox news host Tucker Carlson implying that harris slept her way to the top and that her success is largely dependent on the min shes dated a sneer that isnt new fox news darling and favorite conservative voice tom miller in made the same comments a year ago but apologized after her colleagues called her out these types of attacks on women have historically kept many from running for office in the 1st place because females are often hill to a very different standard than men. At the int