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VRA Renewal Runs Into Delay

By Jennifer Yachnin
Roll Call Staff
May 17, 2006, Midnight

Although House GOP leaders had aimed to hold a vote on reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act before the Memorial Day recess, objections by members of the Georgia and Texas delegations to portions of the measure now threaten to hold up renewal of the landmark 1965 law.

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