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Kendra S. Horn: “I happen to have been on the drafting team in the Senate where we wrote that bill in the Republican leader's back…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 1998
I happen to have been on the drafting team in the Senate where we wrote that bill in the Republican leader's back office. There were four of us on the staff from the Republican leadership side, and there were five on the Democratic side, including the Department of Justice. If we had thought in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that this was a law so that noncitizens could vote, we would have been laughed out of Congress. The fact is, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has nothing to do with this issue.
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Kendra S. Horn
Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Responding to a colleague regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its implications.

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