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GOP Delays Vote on VRA

By Jennifer Yachnin
Roll Call Staff
June 22, 2006, Midnight

Protests from a broad cross-section of Republican lawmakers who assert they were shut out of negotiations on the Voting Rights Act prompted House leaders to scrub a vote on the measure Wednesday, throwing reauthorization of the landmark 1965 law into an uncertain future despite initial expectations of an easy renewal.

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