OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Links, INC

Floor Speech

Date: July 9, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Elections

Mrs. BEATTY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to join with others across the Nation to ask Congress to pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act.

I had the distinct pleasure to join near our Capitol last week with some 3,000 members of Links, Incorporated, at the national assembly and with the 15th national president and chair of KeyBank, Margot James Copeland, and with the national legislative chair and OhioHealth's president, Karen Morrison, of their foundation to lead a resolution to support the Voting Rights Act of America.

Links members proudly voted in support of a resolution, calling on Congress to pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act, H.R. 3899.

Martin Luther King, Jr., said:

Our feet are tired, but our souls are rested. Let us say the same of ourselves as we continue the unfinished work of ensuring that every American cannot only vote, but has the freedom, the justice, and the dignity that all individuals rightly deserve.

Let us join together as Democrats and Republicans and pass the Voting Rights Act.

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