ari berman's book "give us the ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights in america," i love john's book and ari berman's too but this when i found particularly important. it is about what happened before and after the voting rights act was enacted in 1965 when lbj was president. it is a history i had never heard before. it was my honor to serve in congress with john lewis, one of the most incredible people you can ever meet. john was very modest. everybody talks in congress about that. this book talks not only about john and all the other members of the civil rights movement, the importance of their work, also what has been happening since 1965, the attacks on the voting rights act, to scale it back, diminishing and so forth. that is particularly important issue to be considering, knowing that we have states across the country where restrictive laws on voting rights are being enacted, arizona obviously is no exception. i want to welcome you all and thank you for being here and i want to pose the first question to each of our panelists. did i not mention -- thank you. bad moderator.