On May 2, thirteen Democratic and Republican legislators came together on the steps of the Capitol to announce their support for legislation to renew key expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA).
The bill, HR 9/S. 2703, "The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006" was named for three famed heroines of the civil rights era. Sen. John Conyers Jr., D. Mich., called the bill "the most important bill I will be working on in the 109th Congress." |