Embarrassment: GOP Puts Renewal Of Voting Rights Act On Hold...

“A Lot Of It Looks As If These Are Some Old Boys From The South Who Are Trying To Get Away With It”...

The New York Times Carl Hulse June 21, 2006 at 07:10 PM

House Republican leaders today abruptly canceled a planned vote to renew the Voting Rights Act after a rank-and-file rebellion by lawmakers who say the civil rights measure unfairly singles out Southern states and promotes multi-lingual ballots.

The reversal represented a significant embarrassment for the party leadership, which has promised a vote on the landmark anti-discrimination law and hailed its imminent approval in a rare bipartisan press event on the steps of the Capitol last month.

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