mccrery, when striking down shelby county. chief justice roberts relied on the proposition that minority voter registration and turnout has significantly improved in the country. should congress look at other indicators in addition to registration and turnout to measure the pervasiveness or persistence of race discrimination in the voting process? mr. mccrery? while he is frozen let me ask mr. spital, how has the public's ability to monitor voting changes been affected now that covered jurisdictions did not have to notify the attorney general of voting changes, and has the lack of notice impacted the ability of private plaintiffs to block changes through legislation? mr. spital: thank you very much for the question. absolutely, especially at the local level. without section 5 it is very difficult to be aware of the full range of a changes, discriminatory voting practices that are occurring at the local level which has been an impediment to civil rights organizations ringing litigation to challenge practices. rep. johnson: let

the chairman just said a few minutes ago that since the shelby -- supreme court's decision in shelby county in 2013, eight years ago, said there's been all kind of voter suppression acts. if there have been, they are not working. here's what the chief justice said, black turnout in the most recent election exceeded white voter turnout in the five of the six states originally covered by the voting rights act. previous democratic speakers talked about it, it sure isn't working well, because there are record turnout, as i said, multiple times. the ranking member said it. it's a good thing. so, of course, it hasn't happened. i was also amazed by the previous -- the gentlelady from pennsylvania that said, republicans have engaged in extreme gerrymandering. i almost started laughing because she comes from the state where the state supreme court, controlled by democrats, just overturned the -- we drew all the district in pennsylvania in the middle of the 10-year cycle and yet, she has the nerve to say republicans have been engaged in extreme gerrymandering. we all know it. we all had collea

take shelby county, for example.ter of alabama has a population of just around 200,000 people. in 2013, it single-handedly gutted the voting rights act of 1965, opening the flood gates for voter suppression for years to come. that year justice roberts supreme court invalidated a key portion of the voting rights act known as preclearance, which essentially made sure states could not pass discriminatory laws that restrict people of color from voting. republicans in shelby county argued the requirements were outdated and too excessive and unnecessary. in the dissent, however, justice ruth bader ginsburg said throwing out preclearance is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you're not getting wet. and just like that what had been described as the heart of the voting rights act was gone. it was no accident that shelby county, a teeny tiny county in the south became the bell weather for voter suppression three years prior to the supreme court decision. the 2010 census found that, like many counties acros

i went to go right to the shelby county opinion, and i have a question for mr. stein that deals with the addressing of concentration in the jurisdiction. justice roberts asserts it may deliver be constituted jurisdiction singled out for preclearance. could you quickly, mr. henderson, answer these questions. has your organization found there was a concentration of voting rights violations in certain jurisdictions? as the covid-19 crisis like in harris county escalated ongoing

she represents shelby county. we are so sorry for the loss of your staff member. so poignant that he was so young, but he died of covid, the very thing that you are all trying to fight. >> absolutely. it's such a devastating loss, someone who's been so instrumental in building my brand and being a part of my life has lost his life to this deadly disease. but what it is, it's just making my fight even more important as we continue to advocate for responsibility in how we're handling this disease. again, i have made it public that i'm asking our speaker and our governor not to call a special session. look, in tennessee, only six counties are implementing mandatory mask mandates, including mine and memphis. but only two of those counties are democratic strongholds. so you do see republican counties like williamson county being responsible and implementing mask mandates while their legislative friends are asking a special session to take

since the shelby vs. holder decision, i have introduced in four successive congresses the voting rights act, advancement act, and we renamed it the john robert lewis advancement act. we must live up to john's ideals of equality and justice for all in voting rights. what we have seen in states like georgia and texas and around this country has been state legislatures make it harder for people to vote. i just want to say that we must get into good trouble. necessary trouble. john reminded us that we must be courageous in the face of adversity and in the face of inequity. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. sewell: vote for the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentlewoman from minnesota. mrs. fischbach: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the ranking member of armed services, the gentleman from alabama. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank the gentl

. >> shelby and her little boy, that broke all of our hearts.were in a terrible spot when you found them and told their story. what has happened to them since? >> reporter: it's not all over is the bottom line. after our story aired, viewers everywhere began offering shelby everything from money to a spare bedroom in their home. actually said, she can move into my home. they raised thousands of dollars and now shelby and her little boy are out of that car, but she says it is not easy to dig out of the whole of being homeless. in my report you will see how they are living now and how life is changed for them. >> edd kept delaying benefits for shelby and so many other people. did they ever explain what went wrong, what happened, and how this affected so many people that needed benefits? >> reporter: let me tell you what they said. the edd's answer to what went wrong as we are overwhelmed and working very hard. that didn't help those struggling to get by. there were a number of problems caused by the sudden surge in claims and it all led to delays

i find it interesting that in shelby county, among other things, it was suggested the evidence wasn't there or the need for police -- preclearance. yet the courts on the flipside are allowing some of these legislative hoses to go forth even though there was no true threat presented to election integrity or a massive threat with respect to elective fraud. that is one place i think the courts actually have a role is to look at the evidence. further to that is we go one step further and there is no evidence of massive fraud, no evidence this will actually provide for greater election integrity. what is the harm that happens to our community. what is the effect? the talk -- the court talks about totality but what are the real circumstances that happened. it's had an effect on all of our communities. it's clear this results in a reduction of the number of voters, the reduction of the ability of people to cast votes. that's where i would start with respect to what the role of courts should be. they are not there to provide legislative fixes but they are there to validate evidence and that's

they deployed from camp shelby. created at fort bend and deployed to camp shelby. i did that. one year active duty at camp shelby and then next year annual training in virginia which i knew pretty well. and then i had a friend and the guy by the name of lee morris who was the general sales manager at wsb radio and lee was a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve in the headquarters of the 81st army reserve command which is located on avenue at the time. lee, if there's an opportunity for me to come into headquarters, i'd like to do it because i don't see much value in me going up the rome where they had a bunch guys coming back and sure enough there was a vacancy in the division. g4, logistics office, and i went -- went to headquarters and i stayed there from the time that i was a captain until the time i was lieutenant colonel in 1982 and i was selected to command a maintenance battalion in georgia, maintenance battalion and i did that, when i came back i was assigned to the 81st, the training section, not the desk log. and then i was selected for colonel and i was sent to be

i was recently -- the case of shelby county versus holder. that would be eric holder, the former attorney general. right now he is working very hard to pass hr four, hr one, fairness in elections and the rest. i saw him recently and said to his wife, thank you for sharing eric with us, because the work he is doing for voting rights is just so remarkable. so remarkable. she said to me, you do not have to thank me for his doing that work, and she showed me a picture of lyndon johnson signing the voting rights act. lucy baines is behind him. she was with all of you last week, she said i was standing behind my daddy. a few steps away is her sister. one of the first we tried to go to college at the university of alabama that george wallace prevented. she said, you do not have to thank made for the work. it is in our family. john lewis was about connections, connections. how he fought the fight himself, brought him to the place he was, and looks to the future. how proud he would be at our texas friends. [applause] so, here we are. we were here when

viewers began offering shelby money to spare bedrooms in their homes.ised thousands of dollars and now shelby and her little boy are out of that car. she says it is not so easy to dig out of a whole of being homeless. our special report will show you where they are living now and how life has changed for them. >> that is a heartbreaking piece there. i am glad to hear people are helping them. e.d.d. holding benefits from so many others as well, the computer problems, do they ever really explain what went wrong in this case or how it affected those waiting for benefits? >> reporter: their answer to what went wrong, we are overwhelmed and working very hard. that doesn't help those struggling to get by. there were a number of problems caused by the sudden surge in claims. it led to delays and changed the lives of tens of hundreds of thousands. we show some of their stories in our special, like a mom that had to send her kids to live with a relative who all got sick with covid the same time that e.d.d. cut off their benefits. and how 7 on your side is pushin

so these programs and work is ongoing and that's where our commitment is below shelby. i was talking about the concern for afghans who might be forced by other countries to return right now to afghanistan. let me ask you, how dangerous could it be for afghans who would be forced to come back to afghanistan right now? well, this is one of the dilemmas like over the last many years, these western embassies, especially european embassies with the problem of faith, which was simply not true. and until a week or so ago when the situation like really bought it worse. and it was an imminent danger and the wrong problem. city that different ations thought, i would say one of them is not safe. i want to find is not a country where people see a whole future, especially economically or get about, you know, the security for a minute. since what has happened over the last few days of taken over the entire country. and it is that no denial on the part of these countries really recognize the problem situation at the same time. there's a lot of politics involved in this as well. you ha

and we all know the shelby versus holder decision gutted it. in doing so, it really left open for congress to truly come back and come up with a modern-day formula, a more recent discriminations for voter protection, so that's exactly what h.r. 4 does. it threads a thin needle, since we know that not only are states and localities having a concerted effort at passing more restrictive voting laws, but we also see a supreme court hostile towards the vra. we saw in june two arizona cases where they literally made it harder to file section 2 lawsuits as well. so the h.r. 4 not only restores the full protections of section 5 pre-clearance, but it also strengthens and clarifies congressional intent. you know, the supreme court just made up factors that would go to voter denial cases. and so we think it's really important that we in congress put back federal oversight. i don't have to tell you, reverend al, that when the states weren't doing right by african-americans and minority voters in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, it was federal oversight that di

passed over to today, and section five was essentially gutted by the supreme court in the shelby countyersus holder decision in 2013. just two weeks ago, the supreme court powerfully weakened section two in another case. this particular statute, the one that i believe was president reagan called the crown jewel of civil rights statutes, the statute that we recognize as having been enacted that the cost of activism and death. the beating of john lewis, so many others. this bill that is recognized as having freedom enfranchised the black population of the south, prior to the voting rights act, only 60% were registered to vote. after that jumped to 59%. interestingly, before the act, only 70% of white voters in mississippi were registered. after the act, 90%. when we expand the opportunity and access to vote for black voters, for latino voters, for asian american voters, actually expanded for all voters and that is good for democracy. likewise, when we suppress the vote, when we restrict access to voting for black voters, for latino voters, for elderly voters. we restrict it for everyone.

>> mara, you're some shelby county. one of the only districts to mandate a mask mandate. what you are hearing from officials there? >> will with, ayman, unlike in florida, tennessee doesn't have a ban against a mask mandate in school districts. they left it up to local students to make the decision. but the republican governor bill lee here was advising against those mask mandates saying that he was against any school doing so. but shelby county is the largest school district in the state surrounding memphis, more than 100 thou students. the reality of the situation here is that over the last two weeks, they have seen a spike in cases of more than 200%. almost 25% of those cases are among kids younger than 17 years old. and so school officials here said there was no question when it came to wearing masks. i was here as school opened this morning. kids came bounding out of the cars already wearing their masks, excited to get back inside. school is back in person for the first time in a year and a half. i want to hear from one of the students. he is a senior year. he basica

now our next bride is susan shelby mcgoffin. who was the first woman to write an account of her journey on the santa fe trail. she was the granddaughter. are the granddaughter of the first governor of kentucky? isaac shelby she was born to wealth and privilege and at 18 she married kentucky traders samuel mclaughlin who was 45? now samuel took his bride susan on a honeymoon to new york. but while he was there, he purchased merchandise for his next trading expedition. therefore giving susan if you will and extended honeymoon on the santa fe trail. for the previous two decades samuel and his brother james had engaged in trail in trade on the santa fe trail and they had a very lucrative business and they were very well connected. they arrived in independence where susan started her ld audio de doÑa susanita magoffin. and indicated that these were going to be her travels in mexico commencing on june 1846. on friday the 12th. she said that my journal tells a story tonight rather different from what it is ever been before the curtain

of course, susan shelby is "down the santa fe trail into mexico". the other one is simply titled "mary don hoe." the wonderful story called "journey of the heart" by annette gray. and rebecca's story is captured in two places, one is in a book called "with a doll in one pocket and a pistol in the other." and then i have also have her memoire and more information on a national park service site. and if you googled, rebecca mayer and my name, joy poole, that memoir will appear. as will the letters and the story of jenny culver. >> a couple people want to know and i'm curious as well, you said aguerre was murdered, killed, correct? >> yes. >> what were the circumstances surrounding his death? >> shortly after they moved from arizona there was a stage line that went from arizona down into mexico and in the middle of the night someone arrived, and for some reason the driver could not continue. the stage wagon was difficult to operate and epifanio in his years of leadership decided that he was the only one that could probably handle the situation. that it

in shelby county, it's the largest school district in the state of tennessee. more than 100,000 students. just in the last two weeks they've seen their case rate spike more than 200%. 25% of those cases are from those younger children. and so that's the main concern that we're seeing here in memphis as they go back to school. but it is this continued political conversation. and i asked the superintendent specifically about that in his decision to issue this mask mandate. take a listen to some of our conversation. >> the governor and i, we have a great working relationship. possibly disagree on the mask issue. but that's okay. right here in memphis shelby county schools, our students wear masks, but the governor does understand, this is a local decision. at the end of the day, we're going to do what's best for children and that's safety first. >> the superintendent says they are following the science. he wants to stay away from political drama. at the end of the day when it's just one of a handful of districts in the state doing this, the speaker of the state ho

since the shelby vs. holder decision, i have introduced in four successive congresses the voting rights act, advancement act, and we renamed it the john robert lewis advancement act. we must live up to john's ideals of equality and justice for all in voting rights. what we have seen in states like georgia and texas and around this country has been state legislatures make it harder for people to vote. i just want to say that we must get into good trouble. necessary trouble. john reminded us that we must be courageous in the face of adversity and in the face of inequity. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. sewell: vote for the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentlewoman from minnesota. mrs. fischbach: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the ranking member of armed services, the gentleman from alabama. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank the gentl

she's the health director here in shelby county.talking about she's going to stand up to this political pressure. >> we understand that there's politics around this issue. but frankly, when you have sick children and you have dying children, that's never political. and i don't want to have even one more parent or parent -- a set of parents have to bury their child because they died of what could be a preventable disease. >> and chuck, these are not the same minor cases that we might have seen in children at the beginning of the pandemic. if they're hospitalized, it's often doctors tell me they are getting intubated, they are having severe reactions and even respiratory issues after they get covid and leave the hospital. and right now they're seeing their icus fill up to what they might normally see in the winter. and this is again as we're going into back to school period. they started school here just yesterday. dr. taylor mentioning that of the 18-year-olds and under that are eligible for the vaccine here in shelby county, only 7

we have just passed on a bipartisan basis thanked to senator leahy and shelby major security funding that will help to give the police the resources they need and fund the improvements needed to this capitol. we also have put in place two new sergeants at arms, one in the senate, one in the house, as well as a new police chief, chief major, who i just met with for a lengthy period of time yesterday to go over all of our recommendations, and by the end of the year, i will appear in this chamber with a checklist. to make sure they are either done being implemented or in the process of being implemented to be done soon. another key priority that we called for in our report was advanced last week when the president signed into law as i said all of the funding that we need, and what that includes that i didn't mention, 4.4 million for mental health support for capitol police officers and the many officers that are still dealing as we can see with trauma to this day. passing this bill, which of course already passed the house, and yes, i agree with senator schumer about how it is impossibl

a bipartisan bill to reform the voting rights act and address the supreme court's decision in shelby versus holder would pass with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. the majority has once again insisting on their way or the highway. this congress is turning out to be one of the most unproductive congresses in modern history because the democratic leadership is unwilling to work with republicans or their own rank-and-file members to pass legislation for the good of the american people. the speakers heavy hand has shut down all ideas, democrat and republican alike, except the ones she deems worthy of consideration. members of had enough, that's why you are in the position you are in today. you've heard me say many times the majority needs to decide if they are here to make lyrical -- political points or here to make law. i fear with today's hearing, the majority is showing where their priorities are. with that, i yield back. mr. mcgovern: thank you very much. i appreciate it. i want to welcome our first panel. to provide testimony on the budget resolution. we are happy that you're he

shelby: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. shelby: reserving the right to object again i ask that the senator modify his request to include my amendment number 2535 and that it be agreed to. the presiding officer: does the senator from delaware so amend? mr. carper: i do not. the presiding officer: is there objection to the original request by the senator from delaware? mr. shelby: i object. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. toomey: so for people who have been watching this and aren't familiar with the bizarre practices in this body, i want to just explain briefly what just happened here. because there's a difference of opinion on whether or not the senator from alabama should get a vote on his amendment because that is not agreed to, the body is refusing to take up an amendment that has broad bipartisan support that we all know fixing something that badly needs to be fixed. this isn't like a whim of the senator from pennsylvania.

senator shelby wanting to bring an amendment to the floor which has to do with more defense spending. that you have senator bernie sanders wanting to not allow that amendment remember, when it comes to amendments, you do need 100 senators to be on board. senator shelby saying, if my defense spending can't get to the floor, i am not going to go ahead with this new crypto amendment that earlier today really was a bipartisan effort. that is right now where we have a little bit of a hurdle in the senate. other than that, a lot of the other objectives of the plan do seem like they are getting bipartisan support. earlier, the senate eight had said to me week -- earlier, a senate aide said we could get a debate around 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. that could take a little bit longer. emily: language in the bill broad oversight of the cryptocurrency industry, many in the industry not supportive of that. talk about the language as it stands right now. annmarie: if this amendment does not get to the floor, does not get a vote on, then if they vote without that amendment, as the text stands right now is

it looked like this thing was adopted and then at the last minute, richard shelby decides he doesn'tto give unanimous consent for the legislation to move forward because he doesn't think there is enough military spending in there. . that is what ends up happening. sonali:. sonali: a lot of whiplash here. what can happen next to get concessions made for crypto? jodi: they do have a few avenues. it is not all done quite yet. the house has to pass this legislation. the senate goes home, the house will come back in september and may make changes. however, the senate would then have to adopt those changes because you need the language. interesting is the irs. they will essentially implement rules that will basically interpret the law and that takes a long time. but it was a good shot, but they did not quite make it through this time. caroline: jodi schneider, bloomberg political news director. don't miss the program tomorrow focused on u.s. cpi data and inflation, of course. announcer: from the heart of where innovation, money, and power collide in silicon valley and beyond, this "bloombe

the thing that doctors are looking at is the fact that the community here in shelby county where memphisnated. the number of fully vaccinated adults sits at about 37%. i spoke with a doctor this morning about the types of cases they're seeing. take a listen. >> our vaccination rate unfortunately is not where we want it to be here in shelby county and the surrounding areas. i think that's fuelling the delta variant. we've seen completely healthy kids come in and be admitted. what we've seen with our patients that have some comorbidities we've seen it present pretty quickly. >> reporter: he said healthy kids and kids with comorbidities, other doctors mentioning memphis is a diverse urban population. so those issues around racial lines applies to kids too, but he did emphasize these are healthy children he's seeing as well. dr. fauci mentioned anybody spending time around kids should be vaccinated because these younger kids can't be. >> it is so frustrating and scary to think about a children's hospital being full by the end of the week. then you think about what's happening in the state of

in shelby county vaccination is only about 37% so a mask mandate in schools like shelby county is doing but across the state could have a big impact but as we've seen, not a ban on mask mandates in school but the republican governor bill lee discouraging that. garrett? >> the low vaccination 80s a problem. morgan and mara, thank you both. >>> coming up, the military will require all u.s. troops to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. i'll talk to the director of the national institutes for health about why the pentagon is taking this step and why now. >>> plus the fbi is reviewing documents related to the 9/11 attacks to determine whether they can be released publicly, 20 years later. the decision comes just days after survivors and victims families told president joe biden to skip memorial events this year. we'll go back to our top story later, infrastructure bill, congresswoman debbie dingell joins us live. with clinically-proven ingredients and his gum problems have vanished. (crowd applauding) therabreath, it's a better mouthwash. at walmart, target and other fine stores. that del

so they came back to camp shelby. shelby. they begin to have more appreciation for what the mainland guys were doing. in the meantime the mainland guys -- that help things along. so by the time i got into combat these guys were knit together really closely and they became one of the most coherent and effective fighting forces in american history. >> you always like sometimes to her from a storyteller that tension, things like that bring together. something else, another question that comes up is you talk a lot, the four mane people you highlight in the book are men, but in the book people have asked, well, how is the story of the women represented in the book? can you talk about that? i know they are in there. >> absolutely. the book is very much intended to also be about the families because the families on the context for these young men lives. so i do talk about the mothers and the sisters and aunts of these a young man and it was like to both live in the camps or to have young sons or brothers go off to war and that's an

the more necessary because of the assault on the voting rights act made by the supreme court and shelbyounty versus holder, the then attorney general. then again the more recent decision earlier this summer by the supreme court on section two of the voting rights act. what could they be thinking? thinking, caring, i don't know. whatever it is, they are just saying the constitutional basis for the legislation was not ironclad enough that we made sure that it was. congresswoman terry sewall has been working on this issue. she represents selma in congress, so her connection to john though to voting rights and sacrifices made is a great one. i was so proud she prevailed. the john lewis bill also had the great support of the chairman of the judiciary committee, mr. nadler. the chair of the house administration committee, which does elections, the good work of mr. butterfield -- now with the election in 2020 we see even more need, all the more need not just for hr4 and now as1 -- s1 in the senate. the nullification of election that they are putting forth, probably 20 laws that have become law

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one year we went to camp shelby, mississippi, which was a national guard post. actually, the 199th trained and deployed from camp shelby. they were created at fort benning. anyway, i did that one year active duty at camp shelby, and then the next year annual training was many fort lee, virginia, a place in which i did pretty well. and then i had a friend, guy by the name of lee morris who was the general sales manager at wsb radio. and lee was a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve in the headquarters of the 81st army reserve command located -- [inaudible] and i said, lee, if there is an opportunity for me to come into the headquarters, i'd like to do it because i don't see much value in me going up to rome where i'm just -- you know, they have a bunch of guys coming off active duty. so sure enough, there was a vacancy in the squad division. he was in the g4, the logistics office. and i went to the headquarters, and i stayed there from the time that i was a captain until the time i was a lieutenant colonel. in 1982. and i was selected to command a maintenance

she was the granddaughter of the first governor of kentucky, isaac shelby. samuel took his bride, susan, on a honeymoon to new york. but while he was there he purchased merchandise for his next trading expedition therefore giving susan, if you will, an extended honeymoon on the santa fe trail. for the previous two decades samuel and his brother james had engaged in trade on the santa fe trail, and they had a very lucrative business and they were very well-connected. they arrived in independence where susan started her audio and indicated these were going to be her travelers in mexico commencing on june 1846. on friday 12th she announced that my story tells a story rather different than ever before, the curtain rises now with a new scene. this book of travel is act 2 literally and truly. while they were there in independence samuel purchased the cargo for the trade expedition that would be freighted on 14 big wagons pulled by six yoke each and you could tell they were big wagons. i can tell you when her diary was first published in 1926 susan was thought by h