Austin Scott: “this amendment by Congressman Westmoreland, my colleague from Georgia, is the most treacherous and dangerous of the…”

“this amendment by Congressman Westmoreland, my colleague from Georgia, is the most treacherous and dangerous of the amendments. There is no amendment that clearly points out what the desires have been for all four of these amendments. Their goal has been one thing and one thing only, and that is to kill the Voting Rights Act. {time} 1630 We cannot allow that to happen. We must understand what those words from Thomas Jefferson truly meant when he said that ``we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, and among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'' And there is nothing to give us that right more succinctly and more importantly than the right to vote and to think that my colleagues from Georgia are the ones leading this dastardly fight to deny the right to vote to African Americans.”