[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10873]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           VOTING RIGHTS ACT

  (Mrs. BEATTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. BEATTY. I rise today to remind us that, on Tuesday, the Supreme 
Court struck down a critical part of the Voting Rights Act--some would 
say the heart of that act.
  I also remind us that it was almost 50 years ago that President 
Johnson echoed across this Congress and this Nation for us to open our 
polling places to all people, to allow all men and women regardless of 
their skin color to be able to vote, to extend the rights to vote to 
every citizen in this land, because, as he so eloquently stated, this 
was not a constitutional issue.
  So I ask this Congress, this year, to express our discontentment with 
what has happened to the Voting Rights Act through the Supreme Court.

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