the committee will come to order without objection to the player recess at any time. forll now recognize myself an opening statement. today, we are holding a hearing , the fourth of people act. myone, introduced by colleague, john surveys, a senior member. wean s our veins, not only for his vision, but also his tenacity and his hisblood tears blood, sweat and tears over this. it is one of the boldest actions to be considered. this will clean up corruption in government, fight secret money and politics and make it easier for american citizens across this great crunchy great country to vote. believe we should do everything in our power to make easier for american citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, not making it harder. we should be making it more convenient, not less. we should be encouraging more people to cast their votes, not fewer. we should be promoting early , votingabsentee voting by mail and other ways to help citizens cast their ballots, not
the committee will come to order without objection to the player recess at any time. forll now recognize myself an opening statement. today, we are holding a hearing , the fourth of people act. myone, introduced by colleague, john surveys, a senior member. congressman s our veins, not only for his vision, but also his tenacity and his hisblood tears blood, sweat and tears over this. it is one of the boldest actions to be considered. this will clean up corruption in government, fight secret money and politics and make it easier for american citizens across this great crunchy great country to vote. believe we should do everything in our power to make easier for american citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, not making it harder. we should be making it more convenient, not less. we should be encouraging more people to cast their votes, not fewer. we should be promoting early , votingabsentee voting by mail and other ways to help citizens cast their ballo
house judiciary committee held a hearing on the issue. elijah cummings is in the chair, he is the chair. mr. cummings: mr. sarbanes. mr. sarbanes: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i appreciate you having this hearing on h.r. 1. also want to salute some of the new members on the dais here because they came with this message pinned to their chest. americans from across the political spectrum want a democracy that works for themmers a democracy where big money doesn t dominate, the political debate where access to the ballot boxes are ensured to all citizens and where public servants work for the public interest. like any system, our republic requires regular maintenance. without it the gears grind down, the operating systems fail, and the people s democratic will is ultimately compromised. this is what s happened to our democratic institutions over the past few decades. we have failed to beat back the new inventive ways that moneyes that found to corrupt our politics. we have
trafficking. i can do this with my friend and colleague shannon green who runs our program. i don t think i have to one of the great evils of our age is the trafficking in persons. i think both the bush administration, bush 43 and the obama administration have worked very hard to shine a greater light on this and have taken a number of steps both domestically and internationally to combat this great evil. there are some terrible statistics about this that belie the great human suffering that s involved with this. 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. i won t go on. i think most of the people in this audience are just aware of the gravity of this. we have a number of those we want to bring to washington to have a conversation about this certainly in the context of we had an election last month. so we ll have a new government. so i think at the same time there s a broad republican and democrat consensus that this is a terrible a terrible problem. and in both the
this won t get her in trouble, but it is because of her and two other republican senators that his first congressional session was remarkably historic. he wanted to do more. this good woman presiding over the senate said no. enough is enough. and we had to retract some of the things we wanted to do. it was hard. but i do say this. it would not have happened but for the presiding officer. president saved the country from economic collapse, ushering in a new era of growth. in 2010, the economic recovery has added more than 16 million private sector jobs. median housetold incomes have risen. and in some states, like the state of nevada, more than 14%. president obama brought to the auto manufacturing companies that from collapse with unique programs, cash for conquerors. more than 800,000 new manufacturing jobs since 2010. the auto industry has added more 2000700,000 jobs since nine. domestic production of automobiles and doubled from below 6 million units per year before, 12the