[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10415]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           VOTING RIGHTS ACT

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, it took the Supreme Court to remind us that 
when our young people put their bodies in harm's way, or even offer 
their lives for this great country, that notwithstanding their 
background, they don't do it for their color, for their race, for their 
family and community alone; they do it for these great United States. 
People who have never met each other but do feel that under our 
Constitution we are all brought together to respect each other's 
rights, and we have an outline for that belief that is called our 
Constitution.
  It seems to me that yesterday the Supreme Court said that we are 
making progress in making certain that all Americans have the right to 
vote and that Negroes, as they were called in 1965, have made great 
progress. But that was not what Lyndon Johnson said when he was 
advocating the 1965 Civil Rights Act. He said that no impediment should 
be put in the way of any person being denied the right to vote because 
of their race or color. I hope the Supreme Court will review this 
ruling.

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