The despite the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which have been weakened in the decades since their passage. In the upcoming Senate vote, just weeks away, our senators will either take a stand for fair pay, or they will favor discrimination.
[...] Reid read bis scripted comments from his lectern in the Senate chamber. Did Reid also forget what party Lyndon Johnson worked with to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only passed but even to get it through committee and onto the floor for a vote? A key Democratic opponent - Sen. Robert Byrd (D.-W.Va.), a former Klansman - still serves today and is third in the presidential line of succession as the Senate's president pro tern.
Eyman's brigade facing stiff challenge Did the women's suffrage movement of the early 1900's result in preferential treatment to women? Of course not. The eminently proper reform allowed women to vote, just like men. Did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 grant preferential treatment to people of color? Of course not. It granted them equality, prohibiting segregation in public places and processes.
The votes of Maine's Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins can be decisive in the current flurry of issues on which the Bush administration is desperately seeking victory: the John Bolton nomination for United Nations ambassador, controversial judicial nominations, an administration attack on the filibuster rule and partial privatization of Social Security. We may not know for a long time what sort of behind-the-scenes horse trading may be taking place this time, but a look at history can be instructive. Forty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson, an expert on what buttons to push to whip reluctant members of Congress into line, needed a few more votes to break a long Southern filibuster and win enactment of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Cloture in those days required a two-t...
ATLANTA The Solid South was a political fact, benefiting Democrats for generations and then Republicans, with Bible Belt and racial politics ruling the day. But demographic changes and recent election results reveal a more nuanced landscape now as the two major parties prepare for their national conventions. Republicans will convene Aug. 27 in Florida, well established as a melting-pot battleground state, to nominate Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Democrats will toast President Barack Obama the following week in North Carolina, the perfect example of a Southern electorate not so easily pigeon-holed. Obama won both states and Virginia four years ago, propelled by young voters, nonwhites and suburban independents. Virginia, long a two-party state in down-ballot races, had not sided with D...
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Bertha L. Baptist Sanford witnessed a lot of history in 101 years. She survived the Great Depression, experienced the civil rights movement, and made her own mark in 1964 when she became one of Panola County's first black residents to register to vote following the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
... . Section 706 (c) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Act) provides that in the case... sufficient support to achieve the two-thirds vote necessary for cloture.[Footnote 29] This effort wa...
After a long campaign season, we should examine implications of one simple fact: Aside from presidential races - and sometimes even then - most people who call themselves "citizens" do not vote. This abject failure has been blamed on many things, ranging from the "winner-take-all" feature of the Electoral College, to the notion, held by many, that elections provide us few real choices and are dominated by special interests.
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... for gay couples should be put to a popular vote. Since when does the majority get to decide that tthe rights they take for granted should be denied to the minoority? If the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 had been put to a popular vote ...
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