Elijah Cummings actually said...

H.R. 1 would take significant amounts of the decisionmaking of how we apply and how we exercise our voting from the state and move it to the Federal level.

Context

Cummings argues H.R. 1 shifts voting decision-making from states to the federal government.

04/30/2019

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