[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 149 (Monday, August 23, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4349]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             FIGHTING AGAINST GOP-LED VOTER DISCRIMINATION

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. VEASEY. Madam Speaker, as I stand here today, Republicans in the 
Texas State Legislature are rapidly advancing some of the most 
restrictive voting laws that we have seen in our Republic since the 
Voting Rights Act was passed in the 1960s.
  That is why it is so important that we pass H.R. 4, the John Lewis 
Voting Rights Advancement Act, because H.R. 4 will help us fight 
against this dangerous GOP-led anti-voter discrimination that we are 
seeing, discrimination against the very voters who have fueled growth 
in our State and who are allowing Texas to pick up two new seats after 
reapportionment.
  It will help restore full protections of the landmark Voting Rights 
Act of 1965 and re-implement the critically needed VRA preclearance 
provision to focus on States with a recent history of discrimination, 
like the State that I live in. It is a State that has consistently 
pushed racially charged anti-voter legislation that will allow 
everything from empowering partisan poll watchers to intimidating Texas 
voters to imposing criminal penalties.
  We have to do something about this. Let's pass H.R. 4.

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