Mourning the death of civil rights hero John Lewis, Democrats are urging the Senate to take up a bill of enduring importance to the veteran lawmaker who died Friday: protecting and expanding the right to vote.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and other Democrats say the Senate should take up a House-passed bill to restore key sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and rename it for Lewis. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called Lewis a “great man” who helped bend the nation’s history toward justice, but Republicans appear unlikely to bring up the voting rights bill for a Senate vote.
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