Susan Davis: “This bill was not rushed. It is long overdue. I recently joined our colleague and civil rights icon, Congressman John…”

“This bill was not rushed. It is long overdue. I recently joined our colleague and civil rights icon, Congressman John Lewis, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, commemorating the march and the fight for the right to vote. We can never forget how many people have risked and lost their lives for that right. Fifty-four years later, our election system is still stacked against many Americans. Some eligible voters are still prohibited from voting by mail and can't make it to the polls. Some eligible voters have still been unfairly purged from the rolls, and some communities still do not have enough polling locations, leading to long lines. We need justice. We need to expand the fixes that have been proven to work in so many of our States, and that is exactly what H.R. 1 does. If we are for the people, not just the ones we think will vote for us, then we should be for this bill.”