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John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

Floor Speech

By: Al Green
By: Al Green
Date: Aug. 24, 2021
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker, and still I rise to announce that I will not only vote for H.R. 4 but I will also vote for those who are making it possible and who have made it possible for me to vote for H.R. 4.

I will vote for Medgar Evers, who was assassinated trying to secure the right to vote.

I will vote for Schwerner and Goodman, two Jews who died in Mississippi trying to secure the right to vote.

I will vote for all of those who suffered on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday to secure the right to vote.

I will do so because although it was signed in ink by a courageous President, it was written in blood.

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