U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell has announced the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport will receive $6,481,875 in federal funding. The money will be used to make improvements to the safety and reliability of the airport’s aprons and taxiways.
The University announced that U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell will speak at the 2023 Class Day ceremony. Sewell is currently representing Alabama’s 7th congressional district in Congress.
The Class of 2023 has announced that U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell will give remarks at Class Day on Monday, May 29. The Class Day ceremony is traditionally organized by the senior class and held the day before Princeton's Commencement.
to have his beloved community, a community in which everyone has the right to vote. congresswoman, as you know, president biden is expected to talk about voting rights today. with republicans in control of the house, is there any hope that the john lewis voting rights advancement act and the for the people act will even get a vote? you know, we passed it twice. we passed yet 168 congress and the 117th congress. we passed from the house of representatives. time and time again, it stalled in the senate. this is because of an archaic procedural rule called the filibuster. you are very right. need 60 votes, 60 votes in the senate just to bring up a bill and passed it by 51 votes. it s hard to explain that to your constituents. but they see that state after state has been taking advantage of the gutting of the voting rights act which occurred ten
since bloody sunday? will we ever regain what was one as a result of that day? well, we must be determined to regain what was one. we must remember that this is not just a commemoration. it is a continuation, a struggle to maintain voting rights. voting rights has never been under more serious assault. gerrymandering and other games have been played. when congresswoman terri sewell asked the president to come, she is inviting the spirit of over 1 million. i give her a lot of credit. i think it was the right thing and the right timing in order to do this. you have people actively in many states, state legislatures trying to undo what was done with the voting rights act. we ve got a certain amount of damage with the supreme court of several years ago. with this court, we don t know