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
Supreme court abortion case, roe v. Wade. Bob Jones University hosted this 90 minute event. Well, good evening. And welcome to bob Jones University and our first of a series of three forums. We really appreciate you being with us here this evening. If we could, lets begin our program tonight with a word of prayer. Heavenly father we do thank you for the opportunity we have here to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our erected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly as he leads this nation, that you might grant him a wisdom and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions he makes. We think of tragedies that have happened recently, the tawics of wellbeing and even life of citizen, we pray you will protect a life. And i pray those of us who know you will live godly lives and influence those around us. I pray that you will do that for your glory. We pray n
Supreme court abortion case, roe v. Wade. Bob Jones University hosted this 90 minute event. Well, good evening. And welcome to bob Jones University and our first of a series of three forums. We really appreciate you being with us here this evening. If we could, lets begin our program tonight with a word of prayer. Heavenly father we do thank you for the opportunity we have here to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our erected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly as he leads this nation, that you might grant him a wisdom and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions he makes. We think of tragedies that have happened recently, the tawics of wellbeing and even life of citizen, we pray you will protect a life. And i pray those of us who know you will live godly lives and influence those around us. I pray that you will do that for your glory. We pray n