[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6129-H6130]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR VOTING RIGHTS ADVANCEMENT

  (Mrs. BEATTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. BEATTY. On behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus and the 
millions of Black voters, I rise today in support of H.R. 4, the John 
R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  Today, we step into history as we tread the same path taken 56 years 
ago when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into 
law, calling that day ``a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory 
that has ever been won on any battlefield.''
  We have not come this far to turn the clock back, nor shall we let 
the sacrifices of Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, and countless 
others who marched, fought, disrupted, and lost their lives for the 
right to vote, be in vain.

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  Therefore, I ask all of my colleagues to support H.R. 4, the John R. 
Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
  As our friend and brother, the late John Lewis, said so well: ``The 
time is right. The time is now.''
  Our Power, Our Message.

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