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On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
These were people who had a right to vote, and it troubles me that, amidst all the celebration of the civil rights movement, we are finding a reversal of the most fundamental principle in preserving that right to vote.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin expresses concern over the erosion of voting rights.

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