Speaker Pelosi: ‘An Attack on the Right to Vote, That Is Happening in Our Country’

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PELOSI: "Here we are 101 years later. Women in positions of high responsibility, but an attack on the right to vote that is happening in our country. A few days ago, on Tuesday in the House of Representatives, under the leadership of Terri Sewell, a woman from Selma, Alabama, we passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Enhancement Act —

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— to offset the damage that the courts are doing to the right to vote. And in doing so, we also need the Senate to pass it and to pass H.R. 1, which is legislation to overturn the voter suppression laws that are being enacted across the country. Not only to suppress the vote, but to nullify the vote, so we have important work to do. We have important work to do."