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Dick Durbin: “Do we still need this? Is this something that belongs in a museum, this Voting Rights Act, in the Civil Rights Museum…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
Do we still need this? Is this something that belongs in a museum, this Voting Rights Act, in the Civil Rights Museum somewhere? We still need it.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin questions the relevance of the Voting Rights Act today.

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