VOTING RIGHTS ACT

Bills and resolutions

Democracy: improve access to voting and protect election integrity, strengthen Government ethics laws, and reform political campaign finance system (see H. Res. 975), H5975 [28JN]

National Voting Rights Month: designate (see S. Res. 626), S6143 [12SE] (see H. Res. 1058), H8170 [12SE]

Remarks in House

Anniversary, E1125 [7AU]

Impact, H1369 [5MR]

Voting: protect the right to vote, H6266 [17JY], E1082 [26JY], E1125 [7AU]

——— revise criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to certain protections against racial discrimination in voting (H.R. 2978), H9049 [26SE], E283 [8MR], E1082 [26JY], E1126 [7AU]

Remarks in Senate

Selma, AL: commemorate anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the role it played in ensuring passage of the Voting Rights Act, S2603 [10MY]

Sessions, Attorney General: assessment of tenure, S668–S670 [7FE]

Supreme Court: decision in Shelby County v. Holder relative to constitutionality of preclearance of attempts to change voting qualifications or prerequisites to voting, S2857 [23MY], S7309 [5DE]

Voting: protect the right to vote, S2857 [23MY], S7308–S7310 [5DE], S7502 [12DE]

Texts of

S. Res. 626, National Voting Rights Month, S6146 [12SE]