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Article: REP. DIAZ-BALART ATTENDS WHITE HOUSE SIGNING CEREMONY OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT

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July 28, 2006
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Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla. (21st CD), issued the following press release:

Today, Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Vice-Chairman of the House Rules Committee, was among Members of Congress invited by the White House to attend this morning's presidential signing of the extension of the Voting Rights Act. Diaz-Balart, who as Vice-Chairman of the House Rules Committee, took the 25 year extension of the Voting Rights Act to the House Floor on July 13th, 2006, hailed it as a victory for millions of racial, ethnic and language minority citizens.

"As enshrined by the 15th Amendment, there is no more fundamental right in our democratic system than the right to vote," said ...

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