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The longest 'emergency': congress debates (sort of) the Voting Rights Act of 1965.(CAPITOL HILL III)
IN mid-June, a relatively small number of House Republicans persuaded their leaders to delay a floor vote on a bill officially called "The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006."
California Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters was furious, which is not unprecedented. "The notion that a handful of Republicans from southern states can rally enough support to hijack reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act is a slap in the face to the civil-rights pioneers after which this legislation is named," she said. "This delay is inexcusable." She added that Republicans have a "moral obligation," ...
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