“Congressman Clyburn is offering legislation to rename the HR 4 John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act tomorrow. The name change is expected to be passed unanimously,” Clyburn spokeswoman Hope Derrick said in a statement. Sunday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far refused to put the legislation to a vote.
“I think that Trump and the Senate leadership, Mitch McConnell, for their actions if they celebrate this man’s heroism in this way, then we are going to work and pass that bill because it is established in the way that the Supreme Court asked us to do. let’s introduce “. “He told CNN’s Jake Tapper about” State of the Union. ”
“And if the President signed that, then I think that’s what we would do to honor John. It should be the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2020. That’s the way to do it. Words can be powerful, but facts are lasting, “he said.
The images from that day shocked the nation and galvanized support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act that was enacted later that year by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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