We dont have a gavel. Committee on constitution of civil rights and Civil Liberties are called to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. Welcome everybody to todays hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. On evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Todays hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the Voting Rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. I am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. Thats one of the words we toss arnold. It is not really a reinvigoration. It is more of a degradation that section four would cut out. We need
One. First, madam president of the National Conference of state legislators representing illinois 47th district, senator torri hutchinson. [applause] former United States senator and former governor of the commonwealth of virginia, george allen. [applause] governor of South Carolina, jim hodges. [applause] former majority of the u. S. House of representatives, eric cantor. [applause] finally, a former advisor and deputy chief of staff to the white house to george w. Bush. [applause] thatnt it always seem the moment we are living in is the most chaotic, the most dysfunctional that we have ever seen in american politics . Looking back through history, we is ato explore what it the federal level and what it is at the state level that has made government so dysfunctional and so problematic. And how, looking forward, are there ways that all of us and all of you can help the past about . Get past that. College inuated from virginia, i went right to my first job, i covered the Virginia State
Im here with bo. And id like to acknowledge two additional coauthors in the room who collaborated on several parts of this very comprehensive report. In addition to that wed also like to acinformation the fact we dedicated this work to mark who recently passed away this year, one of the major meanters in drug policy. That said feptinal, yes, it is right now the driving force behind overdose degs in the United States. Today just to give you some breathe takeaways about the work weve been doing in the last year looking at fentanyl, the main key points here from this 200page report is that the nature and magnitude of the ongoing crisis is really like a traditional drug epidemic and is more so or better thought of as a poisoning outbreak. That said if we just limit our policy responses to the traditional approaches, these are likely to be insufficient and will condemn a lot of individuals to an early grave. Two points. This is new, unprecedented in our drug policy history and we need to st
We dont have a gavel. Committee on constitution of civil rights and Civil Liberties are called to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. Welcome everybody to todays hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. On evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Todays hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the Voting Rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. I am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. Thats one of the words we toss arnold. It is not really a reinvigoration. It is more of a degradation that section four would cut out. We need
Jay christian adams. We dont have a gavel. Committee on constitution, civil rights and Civil Liberties is called to order. Authorize to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. Welcome, everyone, to todays hearing. Field hearing on evidence. Not a field hearing. On evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Todays hearing of on current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution, civil rights and Civil Liberties over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the requirement of section 5 of Voting Rights act. To consider other ways to strengthen that civil rights statue. Im not sure why we say reinvigoration. That seems to be one of the words we toss around. Section 4 was cut out so we need to have a section 4 to activate section 5. Section 5 has been made dormant by the Supreme Court saying section 4 wasnt adequate so we need to find a ne