02/23/2009
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"it was Mr. Sensenbrenner and President Bush and others who embraced the 2006 reauthorization."
"In my State of North Carolina, a Federal court found that our voter ID law in particular targeted African-American voters with almost surgical precision."
"We must do that. We should be making it easier for all citizens to vote, not leaving State and local governments with unchecked authority to enact legislation that imposes discriminatory barriers to t..."
"Black, Latino, and immigrant communities are statistically less likely to have a valid ID for purposes of voting as compared to White, non-Hispanic populations."