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
The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the 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 i
Act. This is just under two hours. The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Welcome everyone in attendance. Normally what we would do if i could give an Opening Statementt and the Ranking Member would give one a. Ms. Clark one of the witnesses has a 3 40 train which would have been easy to accomplish if it werent for the house of representatives schedule and with the permission of the member we are going straight to the statement and back to the traditional i talk, he talks, somebody else talks. Ms. Clark and thank you for being here. President and executivpresident r of the civil rights law under the civil rights organizations. Previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the Organization Work in the voters rights across the country and worked on cases defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights act. Prior to joining the Legal Defense fund she w
Very strong winds, and copouts amount of rainfall specially across parts of delaware, we pick up over 12 inches every rainfall in the last 24 hours across parts of sussex county. We do have some road closures in these areas, as well, due to localized flooding. Do have flashflood watch in effect for majority of the Delaware Valley including the philadelphia metro. This runs until 4 00 this afternoon. The rain continues on storm scan3, some of the heaviest rainfall right now, again, across portions every delaware, also up into berks county and the lehigh valley. Seems steady light rainfall here in the city. Also contends withing strong winds speeds, as well, winds out of the northeast cranking 15, 20 Miles Per Hour, with those stronger gusts, winds gust to go 31 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia, gust to go 40 along the coast, as we head throughout the day today, we will continue to deal with gusty winds, rain at times, some pocket of heavier rainfall, cool temperatures, meisha, only toppin
Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. Blitzing the battlegrounds. Next hour, Hillary Clinton hits florida and donald trump visits michigan later this afternoon. Overnight, trump fires off vicious new tweets against a former Miss Universe who was supporting Hillary Clinton. Heres trumps latest swipe. Quote, did crooked hillary help disgusting and in parentheses check out the sex tape and past, you know, did hillary help alicia m become a u. S. Citizen so she could use her in the debate and quote, using her as a paragon of virtue shows crooked hillary uses bad judgment. She was set up by a con. The next debate is nine days away and the election itself now just 39 days away. From all indications, the restraint that trump boasted about just a few days ago is long gone. Cnns m. J. Lee is in fort piece for a clinton speech next hour and chris fraitz is following the latest from donald trump. Lets start with you. Reporter trump has been on a twitter tirade this morning ag