rights act. now, the first thing we have to do is to take the monkey wrench that the court threw in it out of the voting rights act and then use that monkey wrench to be able to fix it so that it is alive, well, constitutional and impervious to another challenge that will be filed by the usual suspects. i m with you on this. this is something that has to be done by the end of the year so that a revised and constitutional voting rights act is in place before the 2014 election season, both primaries and general elections. that is something he said that needs to be done by the end of the year. now, you may have heard congressman sensenbrenner there saying, i m with you on this. where he was speaking, he was at a republican party event commemorating the march on washington, 50 years of the march on washington when he said that. the very next speaker
be done. what do you make of that from him? rachel, first of all, thank you for continuing to put the spotlight on this issue. this is very important to so many people. i am cautiously optimistic that we can reach a bipartisan compromise in the house of representatives to amend the voting rights act and to get section 4 alive and well again so that we can enforce section 5. the supreme court really surprised us on june the 25th when it invalidated the formula. but thanks to congressman sensenbrenner and hopefully congressman eric cantor and others in the republican conference, we re going to cobble together a bipartisan compromise and get this thing amended before the end of the year. we ve got to do it. so many republican members who served in 2006 are still with us in the house of representatives, and i believe that they re going to stand with mr. sensenbrenner and let s get it passed. in terms of the opposition to that happening, is there overt, articulated opposition to that id
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done by the end of the year so that a revised and constitutional voting rights act is in place before 2014 election season, both primaries and general elections. that was republican congressman james sensenbrenner of wisconsin today calling for the voting rights act to be restored by the end of this year. by this congress. he s a republican. joining us now is congressman g.k. butterfield, represents e liz bit city, north carolina, where we visited and took this show last week. former voting rights attorney and former supreme court justice. thank you for being back with us. thank you, rachel. it s fogood to see you again. after what the supreme court did with voting rights act earlier this summer, i have not been hopeful that it could be restored by this congress, in particular. there was congressman sensenbrenner saying it can be done, he will see that it will
the voting rights act as an effective tool to prevent discrimination. more subtle discrimination than overdiscrimination. my job is to fix the voting rights act. now, the first thing we have to do is take the monkey wrench that the court threw in it out of the voting rights act then use that monkey wrench to be able to fix it so it is alive, well, constitutional, and impervious to another challenge that will be filed by the usual suspects. i m with you on this. this is something that has to be done by the end of the year so that a revised and constitutional voting rights about is in place before the 2014 election season. both primaries and general elections. something he said that needs to be done by the end of the year. you may have heard congressman sensenbrenner there saying, i m you on this. where he was speaking, he was at a republican party event commemorating 50 years of the march on washington when he said that. the very next speaker was rnc chairman reince priebus who remark