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Kamala Harris: “The way this Congress is composed and the way they have been…”

Featuring: Kamala Harris, Democrat | Former Vice President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 09:21

So I don't believe that it is going to be a good, the best use of our energy right now to try to get that done, because I don't know that it's going to get done right now. The way this Congress is composed and the way they have been treating civil rights issues, I'm hopeful, but I don't know that it's going to happen anytime soon. So I think part of it is we've got to think about now. And I was talking to this young woman about this now. (09:21–09:33)

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Asserts that the current composition of Congress and its treatment of civil rights issues make the revival of the Voting Rights Act unlikely.

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