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Describing the impact of the Supreme Court ruling.

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Mar 22, 1994

So before the election of this one African- American, who I assume is Carol Moseley-Braun whom the gentleman was referring to, prior to her election were there any African Americans since Reconstruction in the U.S. Senate?

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Mar 22, 1994

So, of the 535 Members of the U.S. Congress, which would include the House and the Senate, is the gentleman telling me there are only 40 African-American Members in the entire U.S. Congress today?

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Mar 23, 1994

I rise today to express a shameful condition, that condition is the Court's consistent attack on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But what is more shameful than that, is the inaction of the U.S. Department of Justice. It appears that the…

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Mar 24, 1994

I rise this morning feeling like Fannie Lou Hammer. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am sick and tired because, the courts are consistently inconsistent in their interpretation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. I am sick and…

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