of american legislation. president ronald reagan said and as all other presidents on both sides of the aisle has said. a key part of that provision was section 5, as you said. a pre-clearance provision which required and specified states where there were discriminatory practices that provisions for changes in patterns or practices of voting should be submitted to the department for pre-clearance to determine whether they violated the act. there was another alternative if state did not like the result from the justice department it could go to a court and get a resolution there. but the great idea of pre-clearance was to allow advance review before these things went into effect rather than requiring the justice department on a one-by-one basis after the fact and
kids who did the best were the ones who had parental involvement in their education. does that make sense to you? yes, i think parental involvement is very important in education. thank you. with that in mind having parents involved in their children s education i have to say i find it deeply disturbing that the national school board association convinced the biden administration to sic you and your justice department, the f.b.i., the full power of the federal law enforcement in this country on involved parents. as if they were domestic terrorists. one of the tools in your arsenal of weapons is the patriot act that i just mentioned. not many current members of this committee were here when we passed the patriot act but i was. and mr. chairman, you were, too. and i remember clearly that we were both concerned about potential abuse of this new law
policing and stopping unlawful discrimination. this year we doubled the size of the civil rights division s voting section and our fy22 budget seeks the largest ever increase for the division totaling more than 15%. we have appointed department wide coordinators for our hate crimes work and we have stepped up our support for the community relations service and the department wide efforts to advance environmental justice and tackle climate change. revitalizing and expanding work to insure equal access to justice. we look forward to working with congress to restore a stand alone access to justice office within the department dedicated to addressing the most urgent legal needs of communities across america. in addition to these core priorities and other important area of departmental focus is insuring antitrust enforcement.