Honorable Lamar Smith
United States Representative, Texas, Republican
Representative Smith, of the Twenty-First District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representative in 1986. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1982 and as Bexar County, Texas, Commissioner from 1982 to 1985. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committee and also sits on the Science and Technology Committee and the Homeland Security Committee. The following is from the March 22, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 1433, the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007.I oppose this legislation because it is clearly unconstitutional. While the bill…
