Article: REP. RUPPERSBERGER ATTENDS WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY FOR SIGNING OF VOTING RIGHTS ACT

Rep. C.A. 'Dutch' Ruppersberger, D-Md. (2nd CD), issued the following press release:

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-D) joined a bi-partisan group of lawmakers at the White House today for the historic signing of the Voting Rights Act. President Bush signed H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, into law this morning.

"Even more than forty years after the Voting Rights Act was first signed into law, this measure still ensures millions of citizens that they are guaranteed the right to vote. The bill is the most effective civil rights laws granting access to the ballot boxes for all Americans by ...

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