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Dingell Statement on Introduction of Voting Rights Amendment Act

Statement

Date: Jan. 17, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Elections

Today, Congressman John D. Dingell (D-MI12) issued the statement below, following House introduction of the Voting Rights Amendment Act:

"I commend my friends, Congressman John Conyers and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, for working to write a bipartisan bill to amend the Voting Rights Act. Having voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, I am supremely honored to have worked on this legislation with these civil rights champions, as well as the incomparable Congressman John Lewis and Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn. I urge the House and Senate to move forward with this bill in order to restore the critical voter protections to minorities, seniors, and students invalidated by the Supreme Court's ill-advised Shelby County decision."


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