02/27/2017
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"Congress has the ultimate and distinguished authority to enforce the anti-discrimination principle articulated in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, to protect the vote of every eligible citizen..."
"Congress must do its part to remove obstacles to voting for the nearly 4.7 million disenfranchised citizens who have been released from incarceration and are still denied the right to vote in federal ..."
"Congress has a critical opportunity to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act."
"The VRA is universally acknowledged as the most successful and most transformative piece of legislation to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement."