David Price sees echoes of the 1994 Republican Revolution in the 2022 midterms and Republicans undoing the progress on voting rights that he witnessed as an aide in the 1960s.
One of David Price’s first experiences in Congress was watching passage of the Voting Rights Act from the Senate gallery in 1964. Then a divinity student at Yale, he describes watching ailing California Congressman Clair Engle being carried in on a stretcher and raising a hand to vote to remove the filibuster so the landmark legislation could pass. Engle died the following month.
The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy will host a virtual discussion about the evolution of the U.S. Congress and how to find issues of.
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