WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (TNSPol) -- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights issued the following statement: * * * Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the U.S. Senate failed to amend the filibuster to allow an up or down vote on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act: "The Senate has blocked a simple vote on our most sacred and fundamental right in a democracy -- the right to cast our b more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Jan. 18, 2022: In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today called on his colleagues to support important voting rights legislation that will come before the Senate tomorrow. The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act combines the bipartisan John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act with the Freedom to Vote Act. "Today, our  more PR