[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 164 (Wednesday, September 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4878]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        SUPPORTING VOTER RIGHTS

  (Ms. BOURDEAUX asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BOURDEAUX. Mr. Speaker, Georgia was one of the first States in 
the country to pass a voter suppression bill after the 2020 general 
election, but S.B. 202 is just our State's latest attempt to 
disenfranchise minority communities.
  Georgia has a long history of undermining the right to vote, from the 
Jim Crow era to more recent voter roll purges and exact-match policies. 
This week, news from Georgia and Florida confirmed, yet again, that 
bills like S.B. 202 were adopted because Republicans are afraid that 
they will lose elections if all eligible voters participate.
  It is time for Congress to fix what the Supreme Court broke in 2013 
when they effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act.
  I proudly supported the For the People Act and the John R. Lewis 
Voting Rights Advancement Act, both of which laid essential groundwork 
toward protecting our democracy. I now look forward to supporting the 
Freedom to Vote Act in the coming weeks.

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