Free mobile app, or online at cspan. Org. Announcer Voting Rights advocates testified on Voter Suppression efforts and id laws before the house judiciary subcommittee on civil rights this year. This is about two hours and 40 minutes. The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitutional civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without objections, i will authorize for recess at any time. I welcome everyone to the hearing on Voter Suppression and continuing threats to democracy. Before we continue, want to remind members that we have established an email address at that has been shared, and a distribution list for motions and other written materials that members want to offer as part of the hearing today. I also have unanimous consent that are policy from georgia be allowed to participate, and will be permitted to ask question should a member yield their time. Without objection, so done. I will ask all witnesses and members to mute your microphone to prevent feedb
They admire most, and Nelson Mandela will likely as not be the answer. Other world figures are usually famous within their own professional disciplines, sections of society, Interest Groups or age groups. Many attract cynicism or play at indifference. Nelson mandelas achievement was to combine fame, affection and admiration from virtually anyone anywhere in the world. So if, i believe, he is more iconic than anybody else, then why . His life story of sacrifice, courage, endowns and suffering in the great and noble cause of democracy, liberty and justice, places him alongside a very select few; suffragists, gandhi himself, anticolonial african leader, che get around rah, often sang suu kyi to name just some. But mandela towers above all of them in popular imagination. Perhaps in part because he was the first such figure to be projected to the worlds peoples through the powerful media of the modern Global Television and the internet. He was quite simply far better known than any comparab
Overall, writer for 30 years for Time Magazine. He had kind of a Time Magazine style. Some inverted sentences. Things that really didnt ring terribly well in a general book of this nature. So throughout, ive been out throughout the book, i went and kind of changed that a bit. And other than that, it was really the major change was just boiling it down and then adding those cursed quick notes. You acquired in 2009, how long did you work on the book . About three years. Going to show you video. Out of context. Out of the chronology of the book. But it shows some oratory of a couple of famous senators. The first is going to be huey long. Before we show the video, when was huey long in the senate and what impact did he have . He had a huge impact on the senate. In the senate for a short period of time, from the early 1930s until he was assassinated in 1935. But he, you know, decided that he was going to use the filibuster as a as a major legislative tool. He did it almost like no one befor
An insiders history with neil mcneil and richard a. Baker. How did you get together with neil mcneil and do the book . The il mcneil is one of gigantic figures who not only do time magazines chief Congressional Correspondent for 30 years, came 1949. E hill in he retired in the mid 1980s, he went to work on what he hoped a quick onevolume history of the senate. Nd he spent 17 years trying to write that and finish it up. Needless to say he came by our the Historical Office on numerous occasions. E got a habit of going and having a lunch from time to time. We had wonderful conversations. He passed awayd, in 2008. And it was clear he was probably to finish it. And so he was you know, he okay, this issaid, it. He had the Oxford University agreed to publish the book. Sent it out the the viewers. Anonymous f the reviewers, got it, read it. His is going to be a 700page book. Didnt know when to start writing as happens with a lot of authors. And so my review said, this was a great book lurking