he's nominated don johnson to head up the -- dawn johnson to head up the office of legal counsels. and she's one of the most controversial of his nominees. she formerly worked for naral and the aclu's reproductive freedom project. she's compared pregnancy to involuntary servitude. describing pregnant women as losers in the contraceptive lottery. she even criticized then senator clinton for claiming a need to keep abortions traumatic experiences rare. she as i said has said that she beliefs that -- believes that being pregnant -- banning abortion undermines the 13th amendment which bans slavery. and she says that there is no father and no child just a fetus. any move of the courts to force a woman to have a child amounts to involuntary servitude. she goes on and on and on to talk about how horrible it is to bear a child. and i think it is a very sad, sad situation that the president has nominated a woman who has these kinds of beliefs to head up an extremely important position in the administration, the office of legal counsel. and i wanted to point that out as another inconsistency

already working in the office of legal counsel today and one of the drafters of that principle, dawn johnson, has been nominated to be head of the office of legal counsel, a nomination that we hope will come to the senate floor, and which we hope will produce even more in terms of reform. we've had some success already in the sense that olc has released, as you know, many opinions that were held secret by the prior administration. there are more to come, and we continue to be in discussions with the justice department in the hope of trying to pry more of those loose as we go. but there is more to do in this area, as well as what's happened in the past. and the final area i want to mention are abuses with respect to voting rights enforcement. the civil rights division was one of those places where our work and the inspector general's work found tremendous amount of politicization, and that was seen in results that occurred in objections that weren't made to restrictive voting practices and other actions that were taken. we conducted a series of oversight hearings, one of which led to the resi