In a letter to Chairman Davis, Rep. Waxman and Rep. Clay ask that the Committee investigate whether political appointees at DOJ inappropriately overruled the findings of a panel in the Department's Voting Section that Texas's 2003 redistricting might have a discriminatory effect. Rep. Waxman and Rep. Clay asked that this investigation be included in an expansion of a hearing they requested last week on whether DOJ political appointees approved a discriminatory voter-identification law in Georgia.