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On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
We are not changing that 50-year-old formula. We are going to keep punishing the original States.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

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Sensenbrenner defends maintaining a punitive formula in the Voting Rights Act.

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