i think of stella martin, a champion of equal rights herself, she described elizabeth as a fighter with velvet gloves and she was truly a fighter. elizabeth pre atro -- we all have a responsibility to be respond to the calls from our constituents who are seeking protection, including through electoral reforms and improvements for voter access. we all know we went through a very partisan exercise on voting rights legislation here on the floor earlier this year. some may say how that ee vent on this issue -- it didn't change the underlying fact that we need to come together to advance good, solid policy in this area. i'm working with a group of senators. there's around 16 of us, i think total, but we're continuing to focus on these issues of election reform. we want to try to determine a bipartisan path forward so that we can actually move important safeguards and clarifications into the law. and it may not be easy to take on some of these complicated issues, particularly when you get the pulls from both sides to not engage, to try to come to the middle. but like we did with the infrastru