done, he will see that it will be done. what do you make of that from him? well, rachel, first of all, thank you for continuing to put the spotlight on this issue. this is very important to so many people. i am cautiously optimistic that we can reach a bipartisan compromise in the house of representatives to amend the voting rights act and to get section 4 alive and well again so that we can enforce section 5. the supreme court really surprised us on june the 25th when it invalidated the formula. but thanks to congressman sensenbrenner and hopefully congressman eric cantor and others in the republican conference, we rin cobble together a bipartisan compromise and we re going to get this thing amended before the end of the year. we ve got to do it. so many republican members who served in 2006 are still with us in the house of representatives, and i believe that they re going to stand with mr. sensenbrenner and let s get it passed. in terms of the opposition to that happening, is th