VRA In The Senate; AG Won’t Say If Bush Supports Bill ‘As Is’
By Vince Leibowitz on Jul 18, 2006 in Activism
The U.S. Senate may get the Voting Rights Act on the floor without any amendments, in contrast to the disaster that House leaders allowed in their chamber.
However, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter may want to thwart that:
Specter said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., were considering taking the bill straight to the floor. But Specter, who was already planning to begin a committee markup of the bill tomorrow, now plans to complete work then so the full Senate can take up the bill Thursday with the goal of passing it this week.
Then, get this about the Attorney General testifying before the Committee:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, testifying before the Judiciary Committee during a Justice Department oversight hearing, declined to say whether the Bush administration supports the legislation in its current form.
THAT’s ominous.
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