Excerpt: | After having passed the DISCLOSE Act, same-day voter registration, and the capital budget earlier this week, our Senate today voted for the first time to adopt the Washington Voting Rights Act (SSB 6002), liberating a bill that had been stuck in the Senate Republicans' graveyard of progress for years. |
Published at: | 11:42 AM on Friday, January 19th, 2018 |
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Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
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Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections |
Tags: | Fair Elections, Nondiscrimination |
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For the first time, the federal government has shut down under one party (Republican!) rule