Soledad i am soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Its not unusual for congress to stall things like budget talks or bills for disaster relief. But nearly two centuries to fill one job . The 1835 treaty of new echota ensured a delegate to the Cherokee Nation. The treaty forced the removal of the cherokee people from their ancestral land in parts of georgia, alabama, north carolina, florida, and tennessee. U. S. Soldiers marched them along a 1200 mile trek to indian territory west of the mississippi river. It is estimated more than 5000 cherokee died on the journey which is known as the trail of tears. Among the compensation promised to the cherokee, they also received the right to send a delegate to the u. S. House of representatives and that role remained empty until chief chuck hoskin junior appointed kimberly teehee. Great to have you both. So lets start at the beginning. The treaty of new echota, what exactly was that, chief . Chief hoskin well, this is a treaty that was impos
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
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
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