[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 201 (Thursday, November 18, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            FREEDOM TO VOTE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, over the last couple of months, 
hundreds of individuals have come to Washington from all over the 
country to protest the lack of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, 
the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Act, and, as well, the Freedom to 
Vote Act.
  Freedom to Vote and John Robert Lewis voting laws are the 
underpinnings of this great Nation. It exemplifies the beginning of the 
Constitution, that we were created to create a more perfect Union. It 
underlies the elimination of slavery, the right to vote for all people, 
and due process.
  We must move these important, crucial legislative initiatives that 
are more than laws; they are the very heart of this Nation.
  The Senate must move. It must move now.
  More people are coming. They will be arrested, and they are insisting 
that we move.
  I am ready--I know we are, this House under Democratic leadership--to 
pass both bills. We seek this legislation now. We cannot wait.
  People want to vote, and they want to vote safely, and they want to 
end the big lie. Let's vote.

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