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May 3, 2006
Bill to Reauthorize the Voting Rights Act a Bipartisan Affair
By Amanda Lang
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. ...
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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."OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.
Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.