eric cantor working to restore parts of the law after the ruling. but eric cantor is gone booted out in the republican primary last year. in fact, as of friday evening, the night before the president was to speak in selma, as of friday evening no members of the republican congressional leadership who thought the 50th anniversary of selma was important enough to send anyone until a last-minute change of heart when house majority leader kevin mccarthy, the number two republican in the house announced he would in fact, make the trip. he did make the trip. he was there on saturday in selma. today only a small handful of republicans in congress say that they see a need for the voting rights act to be restored fully, republicans like congressman jim sensenbrenner of wisconsin. i am committed to restoring the voting rights act as an effective tool to prevent discrimination, more subtle discrimination now than overt discrimination. my job is to fix the voting rights act. now, the first thing
exactly unanimous but it was overwhelming. overwhelming and bipartisan. 33 no vote 33 republican no votes again it everyone else voting was for it. the overwhelming majority of republicans for that in 2006 but in 2013 voting rights act was dealt that severe blow by the supreme court and since then things have changed. the chairman of the house judiciary committee told reporters he doesn t think any changes are needed to it right now. even without what the supreme court took out of it the voting rights act provides the protections it needs to provide. goodluck did vote to reauthorize it in 2006. one of the yes votes so used to be a bipartisan thing. it really no longer is. yeah, there are some republicans like then house that majority leader eric cantor working to restore parts of it but eric cantor is gone booted out in a republican primary.
year, 98-0 unanimous vote and in the house that year, it wasn t exactly unanimous but it was overwhelming, overwhelming and bipartisan. 33 no votes, 33 republican no votes against it, everyone else voting was for it. the overwhelming majority of republicans for that in 2006 but in 2013 the voting rights act was dealt that severe blow by the supreme court and since then things have changed. the chairman of the house judiciary committee told reporters he doesn t think any changes are needed to it right now. even without what the supreme court took out of it, the voting rights act provides the protections it needs to provide. the senator did vote to reauthorize it in 2006. one of the yes votes so used to be a bipartisan thing. it really no longer is. yeah, there are some republicans like then house majority leader eric cantor working to restore parts of it, but eric cantor is