Embarrassment: GOP Puts Renewal Of Voting Rights Act On Hold...

gatorboy

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Thu Jun-22-06 08:16 AM
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Embarrassment: GOP Puts Renewal Of Voting Rights Act On Hold...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/#a023526

House Republican leaders today abruptly canceled a planned vote to renew the Voting Rights Act after a rank-and-file rebellion by lawmakers who say the civil rights measure unfairly singles out Southern states and promotes multi-lingual ballots.

The reversal represented a significant embarrassment for the party leadership, which has promised a vote on the landmark anti-discrimination law and hailed its imminent approval in a rare bipartisan press event on the steps of the Capitol last month.

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Thu Jun-22-06 08:19 AM
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1. Racism...

Pure and simple.

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