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Chris Dodd: “The National Civil Rights Coalition is listing this as their No. 1 legislative priority this session of Congress. I will…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2002
The National Civil Rights Coalition is listing this as their No. 1 legislative priority this session of Congress. I will not read them all, but the following organizations have endorsed the Dodd-McConnell bipartisan compromise on election reform and urge the Senate to act on it: AFL-CIO, the NAACP, the Carter-Ford Commission, Public Citizen, American Association of People with Disabilities, National Federation of the Blind, the United States Cerebral Palsy Associations, People for the American Way, the League of Women Voters, the National Coalition of Black Civic Participation, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Laborers' International Union of North America.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing endorsements for the Dodd-McConnell bipartisan compromise on election reform.

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