juan: i want to get back to congresswoman nikema williams.ed to ask you, what do you see as the prospects for this legislation, especially given the ve close provision in the senate and house, but especially in the senate? >> this was something i think could pass on a bipartisan level. we have seen a willingness i've some republicans to come to grips with our nations history and stand on the side of what is right. this was a bipartisan bill was introduced in the last congress, and we are working through this. so i am hopeful that we will see people standing up to say once and for all we are going to end the exception for slavery in our constitution. we are still working on it. it was just introduced recently, so there's still so much work to do. we need people to be calling the members of congress and their senators and voicing the concer. a lot of members don't even know this exists. when i introduced it, started talking to some of my democric colleagues and they did not realize there was still an exception in the u.s. constitution for slave

at making it harder for black and hispanics to vote, and so i want to echo what my colleague, nikema williamsaid, co-chair of the voting rights caucus. we absolutely have to pass hr 1. we have to pass hr 4, particularly for those of us in the south, hr 4 is going to be huge because it puts preclearance back into play, because this is very serious. this is not some sort of a game or just some sort of a partisan exercise. we're talking about trying to purposely and be overly prescriptive so that you can disenfranchise black voters in america, and it's just unjust. >> and so, congressman veasey, while georgia is first in terms of facing a lawsuit from the doj, do you see that texas is also on the horizon for the doj? >> i hope that the doj is watching texas closely. nothing good is going to come out of this special session. nothing good at all. i was in the state legislature as well. i spent eight years there, and a lot of the rhetoric that you hear from republican state legislators about all of the voter fraud that takes place in black and hispanic neighborhoods, they would say these things ver

joining me now is democratic congresswoman from georgia, nikema williams.esswoman, thanks so much for coming back on the show. i want to ask you about these efforts to work alongside your republican counterparts. do you honestly believe we can have bipartisan politics while donald trump, as we saw there, as we saw last night, is still very much in the picture? ohio senator rob portman, a supposed republican moderate, said this morning trump is definitely the leader of their party. how can you hold on to your values and work with these people? >> i mean, mehdi, he's right. trump is the leader of their party, which is why i think you heard speaker pelosi loud and clear when she reaffirmed that the house and the senate make up the united states congress. and the house of representatives is not going to pass this bipartisan pill until we have the commitment and seeing the reconciliation bill pass for infrastructure. because honestly if you can't trust people to lead on democracy issues and to be on the side of democracy, how can i trust them on anything else? s

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defazio: at this time, i will be yielding one minute to the new esteemed member of the committee, nikema williams from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from georgia is recognized. ms. williams this long is a long overdue matter of racial justice and the high waugh project built interstates through the middle of the city, making devastating economic impacts that still exist today. we have a opportunity to undo the harm of these intentional decisions. two examples of these disenfranchising projects are in the fifth district of georgia. the sweet auburn and summer hill communities, millions of people in districts across the country will benefit from the reconnecting neighborhoods program because the government built these projects in virtually every major city. my program invests in the redesign or removal of infrastructure barriers built through communities of color. it ensures the infrastructure of the future will serve communities rather than divide them. i urge my colleagues to vote yes, andry yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from o