ms. king's and mr. rosenbaum 's. the voting section has the responsibility for enforcing or discuss, as well as other enforcement activities. in september 2009, ms. fernandez held a meeting to discuss enforcement of the anti- discrimination provisions of section 2 of the voting rights act. at this meeting, one of the voting section trial attorneys asked her what criteria would be used to determine what type of section two cases the division front office would be interested in pursuing. ms. fernandez responded by telling the gathering there that the obama administration was only interested in bringing traditional types of section two cases that would provide equality for racial and language minority votes. she went on to say that this is what we are all about, zero words to that effect. when mr. fernandez made that statement, everyone in the room, talking about the conference room on the seventh floor where the voting section is located, understood exactly what she meant. no more cases like ike brown or the new black p

ms. kaptur from ohio. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. king: thank you, madam speaker. it's a presk and honor to have the opportunity to -- privilege and an honor to have the opportunity to address you here on the house of the united states house of representatives. and to do so on such a significant day. this is a day of events, i believe, that will be marked for a long time in at least political history and hopefully it will be marked in the hearts and minds of the american people as well. i can think of a couple of events today, one that's unfolding as we speak. and another that unfolded earlier when the united states senate had a cloture vote and didn't have the votes to force harry reid's version of the department of defense authorization bill to comfor -- actually come up for a vote before the united states senate. and the cloture vote failed because he attached two unrelated issues or unessential issues to that bill. and the politics of it are such that, pick