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Conversation. I am so glad to hear that. So, you have an opening statement. Two minutes. Let me just start out by saying thank you for having me here. It is such an honor to be with the group that has been on the front lines of social, racial, and Economic Justice forever. And, to be here at a time of historic importance to the screw. Because you have just called for the impeachment of donald trump. I read the mullah report the day it came out. I read it into the afternoon and into the night and into the next morning. When i got to the end, i do not stick my finger in the air and asked about the politics. I did not hesitate. I read it, i knew what it said. And, i concluded first, that this is a man who has broken the law, and he should be impeached. And i said so on that very day. I come to you at a moment of great crisis in this country. A crisis that it times, when america is working better and better and better and better. For a thinner and thinner slice. While it leaves everyone el
Group thats been on the front lines of social, racial and Economic Justice forever and to be here at a time of historic importance for the group because youve just called for the impeachment of donald trump. [ cheering and applause ] i read the Mueller Report the day it came out i read into the afternoon on the night and the next morning and when i got to the end, i did not stick my finger in the air and asked about the politics, i did not hesitate, i read it, i knew what is said and i concluded first that this is a man who has broken the law and he should be impeached and i said so on that very day. I come to at a moment of great crisis in this country, crisis at a time when americans are working better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top of that would leave everyone else behind. The simple question of my lifes work is what is happening to working families in america, why is the road getting so much rockier and deeper and for families of color, even rockier and even
Constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work in the areas of voting rei rights and election law a