movement there were similar iconic images the most iconic perhaps was what happened on the edmund pettus bridge in the march of one hundred sixty five what would later be known as bloody sunday civil rights demonstrators marched from selma to montgomery when they began to cross that bridge they were confronted by a barricade of riot police with nightsticks and tear gas masks the demonstrators stopped and just stood there waiting sure enough the police moved in violent leap trampled the peaceful demonstrators and dispersed the crowd with tear gas and the whole world was literally watching and for the first time people like me saw on their televisions at home the consequences of institutional racism and the power the incredible power of nonviolent resistance against it it became an iconic and iconic image the edmund pettus bridge became a symbol it carried the civil rights movement forward so too are the images of nonviolent demonstrators being attacked by skin carrying water hoses in birmingham in one thousand nine hundred eighty three iconic images of nonviolence are essential to a successful m

that time i did not really have an opinion, but i did go to selma in 2009 and marched across edmund pettus bridge. even back in 1965, i knew that their cause was just and i was able to walk across that bridge with my husband and children. >> what was life like here in the governor's mansion? >> it is a great house. when we moved in, my mother made it a home. >> lurleen. >> yes. she made it a home. we had a lot of happy times here. we take from a small town and moved to the big city to this wonderful house that my mother made a home. it was wonderful. it really was a wonderful place to live. >> how where were you of your father's reputation outside of alabama, some of the controversial things people said about him? >> i was not aware of that. i was just trying to live a normal life. if you can imagine. my mother was the kind of person that tried to keep us as normal as we could be, a normal life. school and that kind of thing. i really was not aware. >> do you as a child of the governor have a state trooper followed you around all the times or were you free to come and go as you wanted? >> we were

that time i did not really have an opinion, but i did go to selma in 2009 and marched across edmund pettus bridge back in 1965, i knew that their cause was just and i was able to walk across that bridge with my husband and children. >> what was life like here in the governor's mansion? >> it is a great house. when we moved in, my mother made it a home. >> lurleen. >> yes. she made it a home. we had a lot of happy times here. we came from a small town and moved to the big city, to this wonderful house that my mother made a home. it was wonderful. it really was a wonderful place to live. >> how where were you of your father's reputation outside of alabama, some of the controversial things people said about him? >> i was not aware of that. i was just trying to live a normal life, if you can imagine. my mother was the kind of person that tried to keep us as normal as we could be, a normal life. school and that kind of thing. i really was not aware. >> did you as a child of the governor have a state trooper followed you around all the times or were you free to come and go as you wanted? >> we were fre

that time i did not really have an opinion, but i did go to selma in 2009 and marched across edmund pettus bridge. even back in 1965, i knew that their cause was just and i was able to walk across that bridge with my husband and children. >> what was life like here in the governor's mansion? >> it is a great house. when we moved in, my mother made it a home. >> lurleen. >> yes. she made it a home. we had a lot of happy times here. we take from a small town and moved to the big city to this wonderful house that my mother made a home. it was wonderful. it really was a wonderful place to live. >> how where were you of your father's reputation outside of alabama, some of the controversial things people said about him? >> i was not aware of that. i was just trying to live a normal life. if you can imagine. my mother was the kind of person that tried to keep us as normal as we could be, a normal life. school and that kind of thing. i really was not aware. >> do you as a child of the governor have a state trooper followed you around all the times or were you free to come and go as you wanted? >> we were

and in 1965, as i referred to earlier in the aftermath of the march acrosses edmund pettus bridge in selma, prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or prohibits the use of suppressive tactics and various poll tests. these are -- you know, i could go on. the 18-year-old vote. the americans with disabilities act. it requires equal access to voting places. the national voter registration act. the motor voter act. this is based on the principle of equality under the law. ms. wasserman schultz: will the gentleman yield? mr. holt: i'd be happy to yield. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you. in answer to the gentleman from texas' question, what's wrong with it is that this is supposed to be a country that affords everyone, regardless of any category that you fall into, the opportunity to vote. the voter suppression laws that have been passed by republican legislatures, championed by republican governors across the country, have systematically targeted specific group of individuals based on their propencity to vote, differently than the legislators that support those laws would like to see

the right to vote is especially sacred in my district where people marched across the edmund pettus bridge in selma for the right to vote. as the daughter of a stroke victim who is now wheelchair dependent, it is frightening to think that had this law in alabama been in effect in my election, my own father would not have possessed a valid photo i.d. since his driver's license has expired. his struggle is the struggle of so many disabled americans who will be disproportionately affected by this law. we cannot stand idly by while citizens across the country are being disenfranchised and discourage them from exercising their right to vote. let me be clear. voter fraud should not be tolerated and if discovered should be prostituted -- prosecuted. voter fraud is a serious crime. a person who commits voter fraud in a federal election risks spending five years in jail and having to pay a $10,000 fine and rightfully so. we can all agree our current election system is in use -- is in need of some repair. however, the current debate about voter i.d. and voter fraud distracts us from the real problem