US House Votes down Stearns Amendment

[Ronald Kephart]

At 10:00 AM -0400 6/30/06, Harold F. Schiffman wrote:

>The House voted down, 254-167, an amendment to the Voting Rights Act 
>reauthorization bill (HR. 9) that would have had disenfranchised 
>millions of American citizens who do not speak English very well. 
>Rep. Cliff Stearns, R. Fl., proposed Monday to strike a blow to 
>Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act that provides language 
>assistance to minorities, in another Republican attempt to weaken 
>the nation's most effective civil rights law...

Living in Florida really is an almost permanent embarrassment.

Ron

-- 
Ronald Kephart
Associate Professor
Sociology & Anthropology
University of North Florida
http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart